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Checklist of Shallow-Water Marine Mollusca of Florida
William G. Lyons
The initial draft of this list was based, in part, on information
in American Seashells, second edition (Abbott,
1974) and on lists of mollusks prepared by the Council
of Systematic Malacologists and the American Malacological
Union for the American Fisheries Society
(Turgeon et al., 1988; Turgeon et al., 1998). The Florida
list was created by selecting from those larger lists the
estuarine and marine species known from eastern
North America and then by reducing that set of names,
first by deleting the names of species not known from
Florida and then by deleting the names of several hundred
species known only from intermediate and deepwater
regions of the continental shelf off Florida. Many
other published and unpublished sources on occurrences
of mollusks in Florida within the shallow-water
limits set for this list were then examined to confirm
that the names remaining were appropriate for listing.
Regional information sources were consulted for the
Jacksonville area (H. G. Lee, unpublished manuscript);
the Indian River Lagoon (Mikkelsen et al., 1995); the
continental shelf off central and northeastern Florida
(FMRI SEAMAP project, in prep.); the Oculina reefs off
eastern Florida (Reed and Mikkelsen, 1987); shallow
coastal waters off Hutchinson Island (Lyons, 1989);
Peanut Island at Lake Worth Inlet (Lee, 1997b); Biscayne
Bay and nearby environs (Voss and Voss, 1955; Mc-
Nulty, 1961; McNulty et al., 1962; O’Gower and Wacasey,
1967; H. B. Moore et al., 1968; and numerous papers by
Ev. Marcus, Er. Marcus, D. R. Moore, and others); the
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Lyons and
Quinn, 1995); Florida Bay (Tabb and Manning, 1961; Turney
and Perkins, 1972; FMRI Florida Bay benthic faunal
mapping project, in prep.); southwestern Florida
(Perry and Schwengel, 1955); Charlotte Harbor (Estevez,
1986); Tampa Bay and Boca Ciega Bay (Hall and
Saloman, 1975; many other papers in unpublished
database compiled at FMRI by WGL); Crystal River region
(Lyons et al., 1971); Cedar Key region (Dall, 1884;
Lee, 1997a); Florida Middle Ground (Hopkins et al.,
1977; Turgeon and Lyons, 1978; unpublished species list
by Turgeon and Lyons); Apalachee Bay region (Menzel,
1971); St. Andrew Bay (Saloman et al., 1982), Pensacola
Bay region (Cooley, 1978; Frey and Dörjes, 1988);
shallow coastal waters off western and southeastern
Florida (Godcharles and Jaap, 1971); and the continental
shelf off western Florida (D. R. Moore, 1977;
Bishof, 1980; Lyons, 1980; mollusks of Project Hourglass,
FMRI unpublished). Additional records were consulted
in a multitude of other papers.
The names on this list are presented in a phylogenetic
arrangement of phylum, class, subclass, order,
and family, with genera and species arranged alphabetically
within families.The sequence of listing follows
that of Turgeon et al. (1998) and is an accurate representation
of the prevalent classification theory at this
time. The format of the list differs from that of the
larger lists (e.g., Turgeon et al., 1998) by including a
category for subclass and also by providing authorities
(original authors and dates) for higher taxa (phylum,
class, subclass, order, family, and genus). Like the
names themselves, the authorities for higher taxa were
extracted from many sources, among the more prominent
of which are Abbott (1974), H. E. Vokes (1980),
Ponder and Warén (1988),Vaught (1989), Millard (1996),
and Coan and Scott (1997). However, it was also necessary
to consult many other works to obtain authorities
for some of the names.
Three species included here are not listed by Turgeon
et al. (1998) because a criterion for listing in the
latter work requires prior publication of the information
elsewhere, and there seem to be no published
records of the following species in North America: 1)
Solariorbis semipuncta D. R. Moore, 1965: fresh-dead
shells and fragments among coralline sand in pockets
atop reef structures, depth about 23-24 m, Florida Middle
Ground, northeastern Gulf of Mexico, D. D.Turgeon
and W G. Lyons, unpublished data; 2) Careliopsis bartschi
(Aguayo and Rehder, 1936): Florida Bay, W. G. Lyons,
unpublished data; 3) Bornella calcarata Mørch, 1863:
shallow to intermediate shelf waters off northeastern
Florida, SEAMAP benthic community study; also taken
commonly there by a commercial shell dredger during
the 1970s. Another species, Erycina floridanaVanatta,
1904, described from Florida, was overlooked in other
recent compilations of taxa (e.g., Abbott, 1974; Turgeon
et al., 1988, 1998).
Undescribed species are not included on this list.
Seemingly unnamed species belonging to the families
Triphoridae, Eulimidae, Buccinidae, Nassariidae,
Columbellidae, Turridae, Conidae (subfamily Mangeliinae),
and Pyramidellidae from shallow waters of
Florida are known to various workers. However, few if
any of these species have been figured or diagnosed
in publications, so nothing would be served by listing
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