Symbiont-Bearing Colonial Corals and Gastropods: An Odd Couple of the Shallow Seas

In order to investigate the serendipitous find of a gastropod encrusted by the symbiont-bearing colonial coral <i>Oculina patagonica</i>, we examined several specimens of cnidarian-encrusted gastropods, ranging in age from the Pliocene to the Recent, and characterized in detail their scl...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Coletti, Alberto Collareta, Andrea Di Cencio, Giulia Bosio, Simone Casati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
Series:Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/2/260