The genus Clea from SE Asia is from one of only two unrelated families among the
megadiverse predatory marine Neogastropoda to have successfully conquered continental …

Nassariidae are a group of scavenging, predominantly marine, snails that are diversified on
soft bottoms as well as on rocky shores, and are the subject of numerous research papers in …

INTRODUCTION there have been at least 752 native land snail species recognized from the
Hawaiian Archipelago, but many of these are already extinct or threatened (Cowie et al …

Anentome helena (von dem Busch in Philippi, 1847) is known among aquarium enthusiasts
as the “assassin snail”, and is usually kept to prey on other snail species that are considered …

Shell boring predation occurs in a range of animal groups1, but is most well-studied in the
prosobranch gastropods, notably representatives of the Naticidae and Muricidae2. In both …

Identifying natural groups within the caenogastropod family Vermetidae has proven
challenging. The sessile lifestyle of vermetids, with associated xenomorphically distorted …

Abstract The genus Acavus from Sri Lanka includes three species, Acavus haemastoma
(Linnaeus), Acavus superbus (L. Pfeiffer) and Acavus phoenix (L. Pfeiffer) with two …

We comprehensively revise the taxonomy of the camaenid genus M esodontrachia Solem,
1985, which is endemic to the Victoria River District and East Kimberley in the north‐western …

In the last few years, a sharp increase in the number of descriptions of new species of West
African cone snails, particularly from the Cabo Verde Archipelago, has taken place. In …

Abstract Background The Neogastropoda is a highly diversified group of predatory marine
snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Traditionally, its monophyly has been widely …