Molluscan Faunas of the Gulf of Mexico: Endemism in North America's Inland Sea

by Edward J. Petuch and David P. Berschauer

Recent biodiversity studies, reported here for the first time, have shown that the molluscan fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is far richer and more complex than previously thought. As a result of these new discoveries, the Gulf malacofauna is shown to contain large numbers of endemic species that reside within four separate biogeographical subdivisions of the larger Carolinian Molluscan Province: the Floridian, Suwannean, Texan, and Yucatanean Subprovinces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032883588
• ISBN13: 9781032883588
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 223 Pages