Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity

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A New Record of Cymatium encausticum (Ranellidae: Tonnoidea: Gastropoda) from Korea

  • Lee, Jun-Hee (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Hwa (Graduate Program in Cellular Biology and Genetics and Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Rak (Marine Biodiversity Research Institute, INTHESEA KOREA Inc.) ;
  • Park, Joong-Ki (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2012.03.09
  • Accepted : 2012.04.27
  • Published : 2012.07.31
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Abstract

The Cymatium Roding, 1798 is a small- to large-sized marine gastropod genus. Three species has been reported thus far for Cymatium in the Korean waters. In general, Cymatium encausticum (Reeve, 1844) is known to occur in tropical seawaters including the Philippine Islands along with its congeners C. gutturnium, C. springsteeni, and C. exile. A single individual of the species was collected from Jejudo Island by SCUBA diving and morphological features were observed using a stereomicroscope. This is the first study to report the occurrence of Cymatium encausticum (Reeve, 1844) from the Korean waters, providing a detailed description of the species with the illustration for the shell morphology.

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