Aim The phylogeny of the enid land‐snail genus Pachnodus was determined in order to
provide information on biogeographical patterns within the granitic Seychelles islands …

By complementing two independent systematic studies published recently on the Western
Australian land snail Amplirhagada, we compare levels of morphological variation in shells …

Aim A small fauna of amphibious snails (genus Assiminea Fleming, 1828) living in
association with highly mineralized springs in the Death Valley–lower Colorado River region …

Freshwater systems are among the most threatened habitats in the world and the
biodiversity inhabiting them is disappearing quickly. The Hawaiian Archipelago has a small …

Apple snails (Ampullariidae) are a diverse family of pantropical freshwater snails and an
important evolutionary link to the common ancestor of the largest group of living gastropods …

The land snail faunas on islands of the tropical Pacific exhibit spectacular evolutionary
radiations (Cowie, 1996), although they are dominated by relatively few families. Despite …

The door snail species complex Charpentieria itala is widely distributed in the Southern Alps
and subdivided into several morphologically differentiated subspecies. Thus, it can be used …

The peripatetic Alain Allary, noted French shell-dealer and frequent participant in COA
Convention bourses, and I go back quite some time. I recall getting some very interesting …

The Pacificellinae are a group of small, high-spired land snails distributed on islands across
the Pacific. Some species are endemic to particular island groups, but others have wide …

Hawaiian tree snails in the endemic subfamily Achatinellinae display a staggering variety of
shell colors and banding patterns. Despite numerous attempts to classify this morphological …