ABSTRACT 2,604 names at the rank of subtribe, tribe, subfamily, family and superfamily
have been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods, and another 35 for …

The systematics, classification and phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda are revised based on
an analysis of the morphology of representatives of all branches. The basis of this work is …

1985; Signor 1985), accelerating during the Cretaceous with the radiation of neogastropods
and other predatory gastropods (Sohl 1964; Taylor et al. 1980), suggesting that diet and …

The systematics of the marine mollusc family Velutinidae has long been neglected by
taxonomists, mainly because their often internal and fragile shells offer no morphological …

The phylogenetic position of Haloceratidae, a little-known family of the subclass
Caenogastropoda, is contested due to its extreme rarity in bathyal waters worldwide (c. 800 …

Odontophoral cartilages are located in the molluscan buccal mass and support the
movement of the radula during feeding. The structural diversity of odontophoral cartilages is …

With the objective of testing the monophyly of the Calyptraeoidea and of searching for its
ground plan, a detailed morpho-logical analysis was conducted for the following species: a) …

Ovulid gastropods and their octocoral hosts were collected along the leeward coast of
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. New molecular data of Caribbean and a single Atlantic …

Introduction Host-parasite associations provide very useful models to study adaptive
processes. We investigated the interaction between carnivorous marine gastropods, the …

This study deals with detailed morphology and anatomy of 4 species of Scaphopoda and 5
species of protobranch Bivalvia. Both classes are traditionally grouped in the taxon …