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Carychium mexicanum Pilsbry, 1891 Southern Thorn |
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Near Florida Caverns State Park, Marianna, Jackson Co., Florida (average size is 1.75 mm.) Two Hundred eighty three specimens are pictured. |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (U. S. 32nd president), pictured above on the
dime as a size comparison for the Carychium gaggle, had an
elk, a cat, two lizards, a fish, an amphipod, and three mollusks
named after him - the mollusks being: Prunum roosevelti (Bartsch and Rehder, 1939) [as Marginella] Terebra maculata roosevelti Bartsch and Rehder, 1939 Octopus roosevelti Stuart, 1941 The enid landsnail, Cerastus roosevelti (Dall, 1910) [as Buliminus] was probably named for Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th president). |
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