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Cerion Uva
''Cerion uva'' is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, the peanut snails. Description Shells of ''Cerion uva'' can reach a length of 24 mm. This species shows extensive, geographical variations in whorl size. The shape of the shell of this species changes very much as they grow. In adults, the shells are beehive-shaped, and have an expanded labrum.Geerat J. VermeiA Natural History of Shells/ref>P.Wagenaar HummelincAbout the malacological subdivision of Curaçao; a review/ref> Distribution This species is endemic to the islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire; many populations are quite different in terms of morphology and represent the diverse makeup of infraspecific taxa. Infraspecific taxa and type localities In 2014, the constituent forms of ''Cerion uva'' were reviewed, and included: * ''Cerion uva uva'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Type locality: Schaarlo, Willemstad [128 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
