Pacific island land snails exhibit exceptionally high species diversity, morphological
diversity, and endemism. Species within superfamily Punctoidea, which contains the …

Adaptive radiation of partulid land snails in the tropical Pacific has produced an
extraordinary array of distinctive morphological, ecological and behavioural types. Here we …

Pacific island land snails are among the most imperiled animals on Earth, which elevates
the practical conservation importance of their systematics and biogeography. The …

The endemic diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) of Belau (Republic of
Palau, Micronesia) are an exceptionally diverse group of largely undescribed species …

Background Partulid tree snails are endemic to Pacific high islands and have experienced
extraordinary rates of extinction in recent decades. Although they collectively range across a …

We used 20 species of coastal marine snails in the genus Cerithidea and Cerithium
collected along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Central America to investigate the role of …

Conservation laws often apply at the level of “species,” yet species designations in many
taxa were made using qualitative descriptions of a small number of morphological …

Cerithideopsilla is a genus of potamidid snails found in high abundance on sedimentary
intertidal flats and beneath mangrove trees on continental shores in the tropical and …

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 …

The presence of sibling species within the marine gastropod genus Crepipatella has
complicated the taxonomy of members of the group. Since the establishment of the genus …