Descriptions of mollusks in the Global South are still, for the most part, the result of ‘parachute science’ (IMAGE)

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Descriptions of mollusks in the Global South are still, for the most part, the result of ‘parachute science’

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The snail Simpulopsis gomesae was described in 2006, based on specimens collected in São Francisco de Paula, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul

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Suzete Gomes

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