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Liguus fasciatus graphicus form  crassus  Simpson, 1920
Collected on Poisonwood tree (Metopium toxiferium)
on Howe Key, NE area,  Southern Florida Keys in 1962
Length= 54.3 mm   Width= 29.2 mm
[Collection Emilio Jorge Power]
This is considered the rarest color form
of the South Florida Liguus population.
This form is considered extinct.
There are no transplanted/protected colonies
as part of the Everglades Park Liguus project.

Liguus fasciatus solidus  (Say, 1825)
Collected on Poisonwood tree (Metopium toxiferium),
  Southern Florida Keys.
Length= 55.5 mm   Width= 28.1 mm
[Collection Emilio Jorge Power]
This is form is considered extinct.
There are no transplanted/protected colonies
as part of the Everglades Park Liguus project.

Liguus fasciatus graphicus variety dohertyi  Pflueger, 1934
Collected on hardwood tree
  Lower Matecumbe Key, Middle Florida Keys
Length= 46.7 mm   Width= 24.7 mm
[Collection Emilio Jorge Power]
Found only in a pure colony, at the beach hammock,
on Lower Matecumbe Key. The variety dohertyi  is now
extinct as a result of total destruction of the hammock
and the colony by the very severe hurricane of 1935.
There are no transplanted/protected colonies
as part of the Everglades Park Liguus project.

Liguus fasciatus testudineus variety  farnumi  Clench, 1929
Collected on Wild Tamarind (Lysiloma sp.)  tree.
 Hammock #7, Pinecrest, Florida
Length= 50.4  mm   Width= 27.5  mm
[Collection Emilio Jorge Power]
This form is considered extinct.
There are no transplanted/protected colonies as part
of the Everglades Park Liguus project. It was found in a very
small hammock, PC #7, and sometimes reported from nearby
Hammock PC #8, both in the Pinecrest area.
These hammocks, in the midst  of what little development
has occurred in Pinecrest, have been largely destroyed
by fires, building of hunting camps and hunter's Off Road Vehicle traffic.

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