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Accepted: 8 December 2022 Historically, gastropod taxonomy has largely been based on the study of shell morphology, also due to the convenience of the long-lasting nature of shells and the possibility of using the same methodological framework on fossils and extant taxa. In the past, the sculpture and shape of the shell, together with the number of perforations, were treated as constant variables within species and therefore used as diagnostic characters for the description of numerous extant species and subspecies. Following this trend, all the Haliotis species described in the Mediterranean Sea and . . .
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