… other Crepipatella species from Chile, Crepipatella dilatata (… Crepipatella dilatata is reported
to range in Chile from San … Crepipatella dilatata is also often reported to occur in Peru, but …

… As a response to desiccation or salinity stress, such animals typically use … Brooding females
of the gastropod Crepipatella dilatata expose their embryos to such hypoxic conditions (<1 …

… This study demonstrates that small juveniles of Crepipatella peruviana are extremely
vulnerable to air exposure and desiccation until they reach shell lengths of about 6 mm. The size-…

… This is surprising, in that related species (Crepipatella dilatata and C. peruviana) invested
only 2 to 8% of their reproductive energy into egg capsules (Chaparro et al. 1999, Chaparro & …

… Salinity is one of the most crucial environmental factors that structures biogeographic … in
salinity remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the effects of salinity stress on …

… salinity on clearance rate in the suspension-feeding 582 estuarine gastropod Crepipatella
dilatata … salinity stress had no effect on 917 survival probability for L. pelta or L. digitalis (Fig. …

… salinity. The organisms were acclimatized for three months in the laboratory, at a temperature
of 9 C and salinity … , while salinity and the interaction between salinity and temperature had …

… showing an overall effect of both high and low salinity stress (ANOVA, p < 0.01). … salinity
can reduce feeding rates. For example, the suspension-feeding gastropod Crepipatella dilatata …

… salinity may have not been reached. Embryos of the estuarine gastropod Crepipatella dilatata
… are not able to recover even from periodic salinity stress as well as the intertidal species. A…

… We hypothesized that the stress imposed by kelp overgrowth (by constraining resource
acquisition, ie interfering with suspension feeding) could affect the nutritional condition (…