Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient

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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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Kahanamoku, S. S., Hull, P. M., Lindberg, D. R., Hsiang, A. Y., Clites, E. C., & Finnegan, S. (2018). Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient. Scientific Data, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.197

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