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Malaysian microjewels going extinct as they are discovered

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EurekAlert

Publication Date
2014-03-26

A Malaysian-Dutch team of biologists have catalogued all 31 species of the tiny, but oh so pretty snail genus Plectostoma from West-Malaysia, Sumatra, and Thailand. Ten species are new to science, but some of those are going extinct as they are being discovered.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/pp-mmg032114.php