Tales from Oceanic Islands:
The Biogeography of Insular Marine Gastropods from off Brazil
by José H. Leal

Caption for original plate:
List of Figures Figure 1. Calliostoma echinatum Dall, 1881, juvenile shell, Trindade Island. Figure 2. Parviturbo sp., Fernando de Noronha Island. Figure 3. Arene flexispina Leal & Coelho, 1985, Martin Vaz Island. Figure 4. Arene sp., Trindade Island. Figures 5, 6. Cyclostrema tortuganum (Dall, 1927), Jaseur Seamount. Figures 7, 8. Cypraea cinerea Gmelin, 1791, Fernando de Noronha Island; 7. larval shell; 8. juvenile shell. Figure 9. Siliquaria squamata Blainville, 1827, juvenile shell, continental shelf adjacent to Vitoria Seamount, eastern Brazil. Figure 10. Rissoina sp., Vitoria Semnount. Figure 11. Manzonia caribaea d'Orbigny, 1842, Fernando de Noronha Island. Figure 12. Rissoina indiscreta Leal & Moore, 1989, paratype 23, Atol das Rocas. Figure 13. Rissoina fenestrata Schwartz, 1860. Figure 14. Undetermined barleeid, Fernando de Noronha Island. Figure 15. Folinia bermudezi Aguayo & Rehder, 1936, Fernando de Noronha Island.

Scale bars for Figures 1-6, 8, 12-13, 15 = 1mm; Figures 7, 10-11, 14 = 0.5mm; Figure 9 = 2mm.

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Originally published in the December 1989 issue of American Conchologist
(Vol 17, No. 4 pp.7-9).