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Three New Records of Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Nansha Islands, China

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The Nansha Islands, China, have extremely high marine biodiversity and hundreds of mollusks have been reported there. Benthos resources investigations of the intertidal and subtidal zone around the Nansha Islands have been continuously performed for decades, and recently, dozens of new species and new records of mollusks have been reported from this area. This paper dealt with three new record species of the Gastropoda from Chinese waters: Cerithium salebrosum Sowerby II, 1855, Vexillum militare (Reeve, 1845) and Vexillum bizonale (Dautzenberg et Bouge, 1923), respectively belonging to three families: Cerithiidae Fleming, 1822, and Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860. All specimens were collected from the Nansha Islands during the benthos resources investigations on the intertidal zone of islands and reefs in the South China Sea in recent years. Diagnosis and geographic descriptions of both genus and species, illustrations of each species were given in this contribution, and discussion of taxonomy, identification features and faunal characteristics were presented. All examined specimens were deposited in the Marine Biodiversity Collections of South China Sea, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41406185), the Special Funds for the Young Scholars of Taxonomy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. ZSBR-010) and the Special Program for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China (No. 2012FY112400, No. 2013FY111200). We wish to thank Dr. KONG Xiaoyu (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Roger H. Goodwill and Dr. Sanom Goodwill (Brigham Young University–Hawaii) for providing helpful comments on the manuscript, and Dr. WU Meng (Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology) for help with literature. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers.

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Chen, Z., Shi, W. & Gong, L. Three New Records of Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Nansha Islands, China. J. Ocean Univ. China 17, 433–436 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-018-3278-3

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