Oscar Galvez

Oscar Galvez
  • Curador Colección de Moluscos at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile

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Introduction
Current institution
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile
Current position
  • Curador Colección de Moluscos

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Publications (20)
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Teratology is a congenital abnormality commonly observed in the shells of mollusks. A new case of teratology in polypla-cophorans is documented. This corresponds to a new case of coalescence in the species Plaxiphora aurata, an extant marine mollusk from Punta Arenas (53°S), in southern Chile. In this specimen, the third and fourth shell plates wer...
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The keyhole limpets (Mollusca, Fissurellidae) are common organisms on the rocky shores of Chile. The most recognizable are the ones from the genus Fissurella, which in temperate regions such as Chile reach high species diversity and great body sizes. Besides Fissurella, eight other genera of Fissurellidae have been documented for Chile. In the pres...
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A summary of the keyhole limpet family Fissurellidae reported for Chile
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This article gathers the information on the specimens from the family Fissurellidae, deposited at the Mollusk Collection from the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile (MNHNCL MOL). The catalogue congregates information from 3.133 specimens on 943 records, most of them from Chilean, but 97 which belong to foreing specimens. For each record it i...
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A new species of gastropod of the family Fissurellidae is proposed for Robinson Crusoe island, Juan Fernández Archipelago: Zeidora macleani sp. nov. The species is described based on the study of the shell morphology of specimens obtained from benthic samplings. With the addition of the species proposed in this article, the number of Chilean repres...
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A new species of the genus Limatula S. V. Wood, 1839 is proposed for the coasts of continental Chile; Limatula (Limatula) ceciliaosorioae n. sp, is described on the basis of the study of the morphology of the shell and soft parts of a sample composed by: 11 complete specimens and 37 valves, coming from San Vicente Bay (36°44’S, 73°9’W), collected i...
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Se documenta por primera vez la presencia en Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua, de Atys ukulele Too, Carlson, Hoff & Malaquias, 2014 y Phanerophthalmus olivaceus (Ehrenberg, 1828), ambas especies pertenecientes a la Familia Haminoeidae Pilsbry, 1895. Estos nuevos registros extienden la distribución de estas especies a la Provincia Rapanui.
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Se propone una nueva especie de bivalvo del género Limatula S.V. Wood, 1839 para las costas de Chile continental; Limatula (Limatula) ceciliaosorioae n. sp, se describe sobre la base del estudio de la morfo­logía de la concha y partes blandas de una muestra compuesta por 11 ejemplares completos y 37 valvas, provenientes de Bahía de San Vicente (36°...
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Atys ukulele Too, Carlson, Hoff & Malaquias, 2014 and Phanerophthalmus olivaceus (Ehrenberg, 1828) two new record for Rapa Nui, Easter Island. (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Haminoeidae). In the present work we report for the first time the presence for Easter Island, of Atys ukulele Too, Carlson, Hoff & Malaquias, 2014 and Phanerophthalmus olivaceus...
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Se describe una nueva especie de la familia Caecidae, Caecum codoceoae sp. nov. para las costas de Isla de Pascua. La descripción se basa en un ejemplar encontrado en una muestra recolectada en Motu O’Oki, Isla de Pascua, y depositada en el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile. Con la adición de esta nueva entidad taxonómica que se propone,...
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A new species of the family Caecidae, Caecum codoceoae sp. nov. from the coast of Easter Island is described. The description is on the basis of a specimen found in a sample collected at Motu O’Oki, Easter Island, which was deposited at the National Museum of Natural History of Chile. With the addition of this proposed new taxonomic identity, eight...
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The collection housed in the Invertebrate Zoology Department at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHNCL) belonging to Lund University Chile Expedition (L.U.C.E.), is represented by six groups of invertebrates: Cnidarians, Annelids, Mollusks, Arthropods, Echinoderms and Chordates. This collection represents a sample of the material collected...
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Catalogue of macroalgae from Juan Fernández archipelago and San Ambrosio island, housed in the National Herbarium (SGO), of the National Museum of Natural History, Santiago of Chile (MNHNCL). A catalog of the Marine algae collection from Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas archipelagos housed in the National Herbarium (SGO) of the National Natural His...
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Describe hipomería en un ejemplar de Plaxiphora fernandezi Thiele, 1909
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Se documenta la presencia del molusco exótico dulceacuícola Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) en la vertiente conocida como Cocha Resbaladero, ubicada en la localidad de Pica (20º29'07"S; 69º19'02"W, WGS84), en la Región de Tarapacá. Esta especie, originaria de Asia y Africa oriental, actualmente se encuentra ampliamente distribuida, y en vario...
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The bloom o fa red filamentous algae is reported forthe locality of Playa Grande, Tongoy, (30°15'36.43"S; 71 °29 '45 .56"W, WGS84), in Región de Coquimbo, Chile, on April 2008. ldentification of this organism, was carried out with laboratory techniques using samples from the area. Analysis had shown that is a Tetrasporophite belonging to the “Falke...
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The finding of two specimens of Fissurellidea patagonica (Strebel, 1907), collected in Caleta Los Molles (32°15' S; 71°30'W), extends the northern distributional range of this species, which was previously reported from southern Argentina and southern Chile (McLean, 1984).
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Two specimens of Aforia staminea (Watson, 1881), are reported as new record from the chilean coast. They were collected of Santa Inés island (53°37'3", 53°39'5" S; 74°25'3", 74°24' 1" W), and off the Ildefonso island (55°57'3", 55056'4" S; 70005'9" W).

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