A new species of Caecum Fleming, 1813 from Easter Island, Chile (Mollusca: Caecidae)

Abstract

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 species of the Caecidae family are reported for Easter Island, backing the high degree of endemism of this family in the Rapanuanian zoogeography region proposed by Schilder (1965).