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Oospira Smithi
''Atractophaedusa smithi'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. This land snail lives in limestone areas in Vietnam. The original description was published in 2007, and included details of the reproductive system and the radula. The shell is sinistral in coiling and has 8 or 9 Whorl (mollusc), whorls. The specific name ''smithi'' is in honor of Mr. Jady Smith, the project manager of the field research that resulted in the discovery of this species. Distribution This species occurs in: * List of non-marine molluscs of Vietnam, Vietnam The type locality is Cát Bà Island, near the entrance of the Trung Trang Cave, 6.iv.2001, 20°47.38'N 106°59.87'E, Haiphong Province, Vietnam. All other known localities are also on Cát Bà Island. Description The gastropod shell, shell is sinistral, not decollate, rather large, fusiform, solid, dark-brown, not translucent. Apical whor ...
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Zoologische Mededelingen
''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared in 1915, as the official journal of Naturalis' predecessor, the Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie. Earlier, the museum published ''Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas'' (volumes I-XIV, 1862-1908) and ''Notes from the Leyden Museum'' (volumes I-XXXVI, 1879-1914), which mainly covered the fauna of the Netherlands and the former Dutch colonies. ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was indexed in ''The Zoological Record'' and ''BIOSIS''. A complete backlist of published volumes is presented on the institutional repository of Naturalis. The last article was published in 2014 and the journal was merged into the ''European Journal of Taxonomy The ''European Journal of Taxonomy'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for descrip ...
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