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ABSTRACT: The terrestrial molluscs of the Azoreswere first dealt with in dept by the Frenchnaturalist Arthur Morelet (1860) wholisted 66 species, of which 32 wereendemic. Backhuys (1975), in a detailedreview of the land and freshwatermolluscs of the Açores, listed 97 speciesof which 35 were considered endemic.Since Backhuys’ work, extensive collectingand intensive research on malacology wascarried out at the Department of Biologyof the University of the Açores, resultingin the establishment of a “referencecollection” (DBUAç-MT). On the basis ofthe material therein contained, Martins(2011) updated the former listings of landmolluscs and, for the purpose of giving amore realistic account of the richness ofthe Açorean malacofauna and supportedby extensive preliminary anatomicalresearch (Martins, 2005), included aseries of putative, to-be-described taxa.The 2011 list was updated in a field guidefold-out (Martins, 2019), illustrating the122 described species known to live in thearchipelago, 53 of which being endemic.
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Moluscos Terrestres Azores
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Frias Martins, A. M. (2023). Moluscos/ Molluscs. In: R. Gabriel & P. A. V. Borges (Editors). Guia Prático da Fauna Terrestre dos Açores / Field Guideof Azorean Terrestrial Fauna. pp. 14-83. Instituto Açoriano de Cultura, Angra do Heroísmo.
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Instituto Açoriano da Cultura