New Species: An Ecuadoran Snail, Found in Museum

That museum is Madrid's National Museum of Natural Sciences, and the snail was there among numerous other snail specimens since around 1869. Drs. Abraham Breure and Rafael Araujo recently published their research on the new mollusk in the journal ZooKeys. The snail, described as having a fairly small size, irregular shape and narrow reddish-brown streaks that run vertically along its shell, and being rather glossy and light chestnut-brown in color, was collected in the Scientific Commission of the Pacific, a late-19th century expedition in South America. All in all, 20 new snail -READ MORE -http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/16029/20150812/snail.htm