Biogenic Design of the Flexible, Resilient, and Hard Mineral Protector in Door Snails [PDF]
Small ScienceOrganism design incorporates diverse materials with varying properties, such as hard skeletons of biogenic minerals and soft organic skins. However, achieving a balance of flexibility, resilience, and hardness remains a challenge even for organisms. Door
Yuri Kurihara +15 more
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The nearly complete mitochondrial genome of the door snail Euphaedusa aculus (Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae) and phylogenetic analysis [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA Part B: ResourcesThe family Clausiliidae was proposed as a model for studying the diversity of breeding biology in land snails. This study assembled a nearly complete mitogenome (15,417 bp) for the clausiliid snail Euphaedusa aculus.
Qi-Chao Liang +5 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the land snail Euphaedusa planostriata (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 Clausiliidae snails have been of great interest to conchologists for their unique clausilium structure and rich species diversity. We described the complete mitochondrial genome of Euphaedusa planostriata (Heude, 1882).
Yan Zhang +5 more
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Further notes on the taxonomy of the land snail family Clausiliidae Gray, 1855 (Stylommatophora, Helicina) from Myanmar with description of two new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 This study presents a complete species list of the door snails inhabiting Myanmar, updated to now include 33 taxa, and provides taxonomic notes together with a re-description of the shell, radula, and genitalia for 13 species and subspecies, including ...
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Flexible embryonic shell allies large offspring size and anti-predatory protection in viviparous snails [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The evolutionary conflicts between viviparous reproductive mode and skeleton shape may occur whenever the space available for embryo development or delivery is limited by hard inflexible structures of a parent (bones, shell, etc.).
A. Sulikowska-Drozd +2 more
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Chiral speciation in terrestrial pulmonate snails. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 On the basis of data in the literature, the percentages of dextral versus sinistral species of snails have been calculated for western Europe, Turkey, North America (north of Mexico), and Japan.
Edmund Gittenberger +2 more
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A new species of Miraphaedusa Nordsieck, 2005 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae) from Guizhou, China [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe genus Miraphaedusa Nordsieck, 2005 is a group of medium to large clausiliid land snails endemic to Guangxi and Guizhou Provinces of China and consists of three species.
Zhong-Guang Chen +6 more
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François Roffiaen's terrestrial and freshwater gastropod types in the collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences [PDF]
ZooKeysJean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820–1898) was a Belgian landscape painter with a profound interest in malacology. A founding member of the Société malacologique de Belgique, Roffiaen contributed several publications on molluscs.
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador +4 more
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Two new and rare mountain door-snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) from high mountain areas in Macedonia [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2012 Two species of Clausiliidae are described as new to science. Euxinella alpinella sp. n. is the fourth species within genus Euxinella Nordsieck, 1973, and Vestia lazarovii sp. n.
Ivailo Dedov
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Predator-prey interactions between shell-boring beetle larvae and rock-dwelling land snails. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Drilus beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) are specialized predators of land snails. Here, we describe various aspects of the predator-prey interactions between multiple Drilus species attacking multiple Albinaria (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) species in
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