Effects of Local Acidification on Benthic Communities at Shallow Hydrothermal Vents of the Aeolian Islands (Southern Tyrrhenian, Mediterranean Sea) by Emanuela Fanelli, Simone Di Giacomo, Cristina Gambi, Silvia Bianchelli, Zaira Da Ros, Michael Tangherlini, Franco Andaloro, Teresa Romeo, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Roberto Danovaro

“…Sediment acidification also causes the disappearance of more sensitive macrofaunal taxa, such as gastropods, and the increase in tolerant taxa such as oligochaetes. …”
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Testing the Usefulness of the Surface Collecting Method in a Vertebrate Microfossil Site from the Barremian of Spain (Los Menires, Mirambel Formation) by José M. Gasca, Jara Parrilla-Bel, Miguel Moreno-Azanza, Pablo Navarro-Lorbés, José I. Canudo

“…The fossil assemblage of Los Menires is dominated by parautochthonous remains of freshwater aquatic and semiaquatic organisms—i.e., charophytes, ostracods, bivalves, gastropods, testudinatans, crocodylomorphs, lissamphibians, and osteichthyans—although parautochthonous remains of terrestrial vertebrates—i.e., dinosaurs, lacertilians, and mammaliforms—are also present. …”
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Chronic In Vivo Effects of Repeated Exposure to Low Oral Doses of Tetrodotoxin: Preliminary Evidence of Nephrotoxicity and Cardiotoxicity by Andrea Boente-Juncal, Carmen Vale, Manuel Cifuentes, Paz Otero, Mercedes Camiña, Mercedes Rodriguez-Vieytes, Luis Miguel Botana

“…Initially TTX was associated with human food intoxications in Japan, but nowadays, concerns about the human health risks posed by TTX have increased in Europe after the identification of the toxin in fish, marine gastropods, and bivalves captured in European waters. …”
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Identification of Novel Conotoxin Precursors from the Cone Snail <i>Conus spurius</i> by High-Throughput RNA Sequencing by Roberto Zamora-Bustillos, Mario Alberto Martínez-Núñez, Manuel B. Aguilar, Reyna Cristina Collí-Dula, Diego Alfredo Brito-Domínguez

“…Marine gastropods of the genus <i>Conus</i>, comprising more than 800 species, have the characteristic of injecting worms and other prey with venom. …”
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Results of multidisciplinary survey in the Laptev Sea in August-September, 2015 by Igor I. Glebov, Victor A. Nadtochy, Andrey B. Savin, Alexander M. Slabinsky, Oleg Yu. Borilko, Denis N. Chulchekov, Anatoly S. Sokolov

“…Bottom invertebrates in trawl catches were presented by 6 species of shrimp and 12 taxonomic groups of different rank, with predominance of starfish, brittle stars and sponges; gastropods were represented by 11 species, with Neptunea heros dominating by mass (42 %). …”
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Snails In Silico: A Review of Computational Studies on the Conopeptides by Rachael A. Mansbach, Timothy Travers, Benjamin H. McMahon, Jeanne M. Fair, S. Gnanakaran

“…Marine cone snails are carnivorous gastropods that use peptide toxins called conopeptides both as a defense mechanism and as a means to immobilize and kill their prey. …”
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Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Tonnoidea Suter, 1913 (1825) (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) by Jiawen Zheng, Fengping Li, Mingfu Fan, Zhifeng Gu, Chunsheng Liu, Aimin Wang, Yi Yang

“…The Tonnoidea Suter, 1913 (1825) is a moderately diverse group of large predatory gastropods, the systematics of which remain unclear. …”
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Mollusks (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) of the Multiple-Use Reserve Martín García Island, Río de la Plata River: biodiversity and ecology Moluscos (Gastropoda e Bivalvia) da Reserva Nat... by II César, SM Martín, A Rumi, M Tassara

“…The biodiversity of the gastropods and bivalves from Martín García Island amounts to up to 26 species. …”
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Annotated checklist of freshwater molluscs from the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia by Ting Hui Ng, Ekgachai Jeratthitikul, Chirasak Sutcharit, Samol Chhuoy, Kakada Pin, Arthit Pholyotha, Warut Siriwut, Ruttapon Srisonchai, Zeb S. Hogan, Peng Bun Ngor

“…Surveys of the Tonle Sap Lake and surrounding watershed were also conducted and found 31 species, 15 bivalves (five families) and 16 gastropods (eight families), in the Tonle Sap basin, including three new records for Cambodia (Scaphula minuta, Novaculina siamensis, Wattebledia siamensis), the presence of globally invasive Pomacea maculata and potential pest species like Limnoperna fortunei. …”
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Metatranscriptomics unmasks Mollusca virome with a remarkable presence of rhabdovirus in cephalopods by Magalí Rey-Campos, Luis Daniel González-Vázquez, Beatriz Novoa, Antonio Figueras

“…This meta-analysis included an extensive search of SRA datasets belonging to mollusks available in the NCBI database, selecting a total of 55 SRA datasets that were further analyzed searching for viral sequences.ResultsTwenty-two bivalves, 19 cephalopods and 16 gastropods from 16 geographical origins and 17 different tissues were considered. …”
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Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets by Yael B. Horoszowski-Fridman, Ido Izhaki, Sefano M. Katz, Ronen Barkan, Baruch Rinkevich

“…The extent of fish and gastropods corallivory varied among the coral species and planulation of Stylophora transplants was significantly higher than same-size natal-colonies. …”
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Pellioditis pelhamensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) and Pellioditis pellio (Schneider, 1866), earthworm associates from different subclades within Pellioditis (syn. Phasmarhabdi... by Irma Tandingan De Ley, Karin Kiontke, Wim Bert, Walter Sudhaus, David H A Fitch

“…Molecular phylogenetic analysis places both species in a clade that includes all species previously described as Phasmarhabditis which are associated with gastropods. Phasmarhabditis Andrássy, 1976 is therefore a junior synonym of Pellioditis Dougherty, 1953. …”
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Benthic Invertebrates Abundance and Trophic Links in the Coastal Zone during <i>Cladophora</i> Blooms by Nadezhda A. Berezina, Alexei V. Tiunov, Vasily A. Petukhov, Yulia I. Gubelit

“…Some species of grazing or omnivorous consumers (nematodes, gastropods, amphipods, insect larvae) reached high abundance in the <i>Cladophora</i>-dominated coastal community. …”
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Cave features, seasonality and subterranean distribution of non-obligate cave dwellers by Enrico Lunghi, Raoul Manenti, Gentile Francesco Ficetola

“…In each sector we measured cave morphology and microclimatic features, assessed the occurrence of eight non-troglobitic taxa (orthopterans, spiders, gastropods and amphibians), and related species distribution to environmental features and sampling periods. …”
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High connectivity of animal populations in deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields in the Central Indian Ridge relevant to its geological setting. by Girish Beedessee, Hiromi Watanabe, Tomomi Ogura, Suguru Nemoto, Takuya Yahagi, Satoshi Nakagawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Ken Takai, Meera Koonjul, Daniel E P Marie

“…In the present study, we monitored the dispersal of four representative animals, Austinograea rodriguezensis, Rimicaris kairei, Alviniconcha and the scaly-foot gastropods, among these vent fields by using indirect methods, i.e., phylogenetic and population genetic analyses. …”
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ELASTICITY ANALYSIS OF THE GRAZING AND DETRITAL PATHWAYS IN A SHALLOW PHILIPPINE SEAGRASS MEADOW by Michael Clores

“…Results showed the effects of biomass increase and decrease of grazers (herbivorous gastropods, Tripneustes gratilla, and polychaetes). …”
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Global taxonomic and functional patterns in invertebrate assemblages from rocky-intertidal mussel beds by Nicole M. Cameron, Ricardo A. Scrosati, Nelson Valdivia, Zechariah D. Meunier

“…However, taxonomic groups with similar ecologies (28 groups including barnacles, decapods, gastropods, polychaetes, etc.) were more universally present in mussel beds. …”
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Analysis of cadmium heavy metal content in rice snail (Pila ampullacea) from Rawa Taliwang Lake by Indra Wulan, Khairuddin Khairuddin, Muhammad Yamin

“…The analysis showed that the average cadmium (Cd) heavy metal content in the flesh of rice snails (Pila ampullacea) from Rawa Taliwang Lake was 0.19 mg/kg, which means that it is suitable for consumption because it is below the maximum threshold of cadmium (Cd) contamination allowed in gastropods which are 0.30 mg/kg according to the Food and Drug Administration Regulation No. 9 of 2022.…”
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THE PRATI DI STUORES/STUORES WIESEN SECTION (DOLOMITES, ITALY): A CANDIDATE GLOBAL STRATOTYPE SECTION AND POINT FOR THE BASE OF THE CARNIAN STAGE by CARMELA BROGLIO LORIGA, SIMONETTA CIRILLI, VITTORIO DE ZANCHE, DONATO DI BARI, PIERO GIANOLLA, GIAN FRANCO LAGHI, WILLIAM LOWRIE, STEFANO MANFRIN, ADELAIDE MASTANDREA, PAOLO MIETTO, GIOVANNI MUTTONI, CLAUDIO NERI, RENATO POSENATO, MARIACARMELA RECHICHI, ROBERTO RETTORI, GUIDO ROGHI

“…Palynomorphs, foraminifers, gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, microcrinoids and holothurian sclerites were studied. …”
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Revisiting GUD: An empirical test of the size-dependency of patch departure behaviour. by Francesco Cozzoli, Giovanna Ligetta, Fabio Vignes, Alberto Basset

“…To this end, we propose a meso-cosm approach using three species of gastropods differing in size as a model system and 32P radio-isotopic techniques as a measure of resource use. …”
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