Triassic Revolution by Michael J. Benton, Feixiang Wu

“…When the MMR was proposed it was seen as a process that occurred in the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous, as modern crustaceans, gastropods, and fishes enhanced predator-prey arms races. …”
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Ooid-stromatolite association - a stress for benthic ecosystems by A. I. Antoshkina

“…It lead to the quiet-water environments, expansion of microbe and bacterial associations and eutrophy of waters, calcium balance of sea waters fall and reorganization of benthos ecosystems with dominance of mostly euryfacial and euryhaline organisms - Ostracods, gastropods and bivalves. Bulk carbonate values from the Wenlock limestones with ooids average -5,4...-6,4% for S13C PDB and 22,9...24,6% for S18O SNOW. …”
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Validating a molecular clock for nudibranchs—No fossils to the rescue by Kara K. S. Layton, Nerida G. Wilson

“…Lastly, we derive divergence rates for mitochondrial and nuclear loci that exceed known rates for other gastropods and we highlight significant rate heterogeneity both among markers and taxa. …”
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Diversité des macroinvertébrés benthiques des rivières du nord-est de l’île d’Idjwi, République Démocratique du Congo by Michael Baraka Nyakabeji, Éric Mihingano Mushagalusa, Jean-Jacques Mashimango Bagalwa, Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose

“…These macroinvertebrates are distributed in 3 phyla (arthropods, mollusks and annelids), 5 classes (insects, crustacea, gastropods, oligochaetes and achaetes), 11 orders and 43 families. …”
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Feeding habits of the ocean whitefish, Caulolatilus princeps Jenyns 1842 (Pisces: Branchiostegidae), in La Paz Bay, B.C.S., Mexico by JF Elorduy-Garay, J Caraveo-Patiño

“…The spectrum is dominated, most of the year, by the ostracod Conchoecia pacifìca, along with other secondary food items like hyperiid amphipods (Vibilia sp.), euphausiids (Nycthiphanes simplex), galatheids (Pleuroncodes planipes), pteropod molluscs (Hyaloselix striata, Clio piramidata), cephalopods (Loligo opalescens) and fishes, and with a range of incidental food items, like gammarids (Ampheliscidae), crab larvae (Callinectes sp.), isopods, penaeids, thalassinoideans, small gastropods, polychaetes and echinoderms. There are no significant differences in the spectra from males and females (Wilcoxon’s test, P = 0.05). …”
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Marine biodiversity of an Eastern Tropical Pacific oceanic island, Isla del Coco, Costa Rica by Jorge Cortés

“…At least 1688 species are recorded, with the gastropods (383 species), bony fishes (354 spp.) and crustaceans (at least 263 spp.) being the most species-rich groups; 45 species are endemic to Isla del Coco National Park (2.7% of the total). …”
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Feeding Mechanisms of Adult Tropical Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus gigas toward Feeds’ Conditions by Mohd Razali Md Razak, Zaleha Kassim

“…We introduced 30 males and females respectively to five different natural potential feeds, namely, gastropods (Turritella sp.), crustacean (Squilla sp.), fish (Lates calcarifer), bivalve (Meretrix meretrix) and polychaete (Nereis sp.). …”
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Atol das Rocas: an oasis for Octopus insularis juveniles (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) by Helena F Bouth, Tatiana S Leite, Françoise D. de Lima, Jorge E. Lins Oliveira

“…Five species represented more than 80% of all findings: the crabs, Xanthodius denticulatus White, 1848 (38.5%), Microphrys bicornutus (Latreille, 1825) (18.5%) and Mithrax forceps Milne-Edwards, 1875 (7.0%); and the gastropods Hipponix sp. (9.3%) and Collisella sp. (8.4%). …”
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF MACROZOOBENTHOS AS BIOINDICATOR OF WATER QUALITY IN THE OGAN RIVER AROUND BATURAJA CITY by Siti Aulia Nurainah, Zazili Hanafiah

“…The results revealed that macrozoobenthos found in the Ogan River consisted of 6 classes (i.e., Bivalvia, Crustacea, Gastropods, Insecta, Oligochaeta, and Turbellaria), 12 orders, 21 families, and 30 genera. …”
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The late Middle Devonian fauna of Red Hill I, Nevada, and its paleobiogeographic implications by H.-P. Schultze

“…Sponges are second in abundance of specimens and number of species only to the fishes and occur together with other invertebrates (conodonts, conulariids, dacryoconarid tentaculites, gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, arthropods, and unidentifiable ammonoids and echinoderms). …”
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Paleoinvertebrados e Paleoambientes da Formação Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior) em Aricuru, Município de Maracanã, Estado do Pará, Brasil by Vladimir de Araújo Távora, Salustriano Bosco Reis

“…Foram estudados 203 espécimes agrupados em 25 espécies entre macroforaminíferos, corais, macrobriozoários, moluscos biválvios e gastrópodes, crustáceos decápodes e equinoides, bem como 67 icnofósseis do tipo Thalassinoides, icnitos de habitação e alimentação de crustáceos decápodes e peracarídeos. …”
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Starvation hardiness as preadaptation for life in subterranean habitats by Peter Kozel, Tone Novak, Franc Janžekovič, Saška Lipovšek

“…The consumption of energy-supplying compounds was strongly higher taxa-dependant; glycogen is the main energy store in gastropods, lipids in insects, and arachnids rely on both reserve compounds. …”
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The physical basis of mollusk shell chiral coiling by Chirat, R, Goriely, A, Moulton, DE

“…Our model shows that a growth mismatch between the secreted shell tube and a bilaterally symmetric body in ammonites can generate mechanical forces that are balanced by a twist of the body, breaking shell symmetry. In gastropods, where a twist is intrinsic to the body, the same model predicts that helicospiral shells are the most likely shell forms. …”

Anatomy of Zetela alphonsi Vilvens, 2002 casts doubt on its original placement based on conchological characters (Mollusca, Solariellidae) by Schwabe, E, Heβ, M, Sumner-Rooney, L, Sellanes, J

“…Zetela is a genus of marine gastropods belonging to the family Solariellidae (Vetigastropoda, Trochoidea). …”

Exploring Benthic Scavenger Assemblages, a Multi-Habitat Approach in NW Iberian Peninsula by Diego Carreira-Flores, Puri Veiga, Jesús Fernández-Gutiérrez, Pedro T. Gomes, Marcos Rubal

“…Regarding megafauna, the dominance of <i>Tritia</i> gastropods in sand habitats in comparison with its absence in rock and its very low abundance in pebbles was mainly responsible for the differences. …”
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Hydrological, Environmental and Taxonomical Heterogeneity during the Transition from Drying to Flowing Conditions in a Mediterranean Intermittent River by Andy Banegas-Medina, Isis-Yelena Montes, Ourania Tzoraki, Luc Brendonck, Tom Pinceel, Gustavo Diaz, Pedro Arriagada, Jose-Luis Arumi, Pablo Pedreros, Ricardo Figueroa

“…The disconnected pools and the flow resumption phases were characterised by high proportions of lentic taxa and non-insects, such as the endemic species of bivalves, gastropods, and crustaceans, highlighting the relevance of disconnected pools as refuges. …”
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Exposure to tributyltin chloride induces penis and vas deferens development and increases RXR expression in females of the purple snail (Plicopurpura pansa) by D Domínguez-Ojeda, AE Rojas-García, ML Robledo-Marenco, BS Barrón-Vivanco, IM Medina-Díaz

“…Aquatic invertebrates, particularly marine gastropods, are extremely sensitive to TBT and undergo changes in the imposition of male secondary sex characteristics in response to exposure. …”
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Listening to Slugs: Acceptability and Consumption of Molluscicide Pellets by the Grey Field Slug, <i>Deroceras reticulatum</i> by Samantha Mirhaya de Silva, David Chesmore, Jack Smith, Gordon Port

“…Gastropod damage to crop plants has a significant economic impact on agricultural and horticultural industries worldwide, with the Grey Field Slug (<i>Deroceras reticulatum</i> (Müller)) considered the main mollusc pest in the United Kingdom and in many other temperate areas. …”
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Rat lungworm survives winter: experimental overwintering of Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae in European slugs by Lucia Anettová, Anna Šipková, Elena Izquierdo-Rodriguez, Vivienne Velič, David Modrý

“…The parasite has a complex life cycle with a range of gastropods serving as intermediate hosts. A broad spectrum of poikilotherm vertebrates and invertebrates can serve as paratenic hosts. …”
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Functional and evolutionary perspectives on gill structures of an obligate air-breathing, aquatic snail by Cristian Rodriguez, Guido I. Prieto, Israel A. Vega, Alfredo Castro-Vazquez

“…Ampullariids are freshwater gastropods bearing a gill and a lung, thus showing different degrees of amphibiousness. …”
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