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Sci Data. 2018 Jan 09;5:170197. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.197.

Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient.

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Sara S Kahanamoku, Pincelli M Hull, David R Lindberg, Allison Y Hsiang, Erica C Clites, Seth Finnegan

Affiliations

  1. Yale University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
  2. University of California, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  3. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Stockholm 10405, Sweden.
  4. University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

PMID: 29313842 PMCID: PMC5759373 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.197

Abstract

Body size distributions can vary widely among communities, with important implications for ecological dynamics, energetics, and evolutionary history. Here we present a dataset of body size and shape for 12,035 extant Patellogastropoda (true limpet) specimens from the collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, compiled using a novel high-throughput morphometric imaging method. These specimens were collected over the past 150 years at 355 localities along a latitudinal gradient ranging from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico and are presented here with individual images, 2D outline coordinates, and 2D measurements of body size and shape. This dataset provides a resource for assemblage-scale macroecological questions and documents the size and diversity of recent patellogastropods in the northeastern Pacific.

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