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Venomous Secretions from Marine Snails of the Terebridae Family Target Acetylcholine Receptors

Toxins, 2013
Venoms from cone snails (Conidae) have been extensively studied during the last decades, but those from other members of the suborder Toxoglossa, such as of Terebridae and Turridae superfamilies attracted less interest so far. Here, we report the effects
Cora Wunder, Dietrich Mebs, Jan Tytgat, Steve Peigneur, Annette Nicke, Alexander Kurz, Christian Melaun, Yvonne Kendel, Silke Kauferstein   +8 more
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Middle Miocene conoidean gastropods from western Ukraine (Paratethys): Integrative taxonomy, palaeoclimatogical and palaeobiogeographical implications [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016
The late Badenian (early Serravallian) conoideans from the Pidhirtsi Beds of western Ukraine (central Paratethys) have been investigated by means of a comprehensive and easy-to-perform morphometric approach, allowing the characterisation of eleven ...
Daniele Scarponi, Giano Della Bella, Bruno Dell’Angelo, John Warren Huntley, Maurizio Sosso   +4 more
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Conidae Fleming 1822

, 2023
Family Conidae Fleming, 1822 Note. The presence of conoidean gastropods in the Santa Maria assemblages was already noted by Bronn in Hartung (1861: 117), who recorded Conus ? pyrula Brocchi, without stating the exact locality.
Sacchetti, Claudia, Ávila, Sérgio P., Landau, Bernard   +2 more
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Eocene gastropods of the New Forest, UK

Geology Today, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 26-37, January/February 2025.
Gastropods expanded into niches vacated by both terrestrial and marine organisms following the end‐Cretaceous mass extinction, to become one of the dominant mollusc groups of the Cenozoic. The Selsey Formation of Eocene age was deposited within a shallow marine embayment across the Hampshire Basin (southern England) and contains a particularly diverse ...
James Barnet
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Prey specificity of predatory venoms

Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 6, Page 2253-2273, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Venom represents a key adaptation of many venomous predators, allowing them to immobilise prey quickly through chemical rather than physical warfare. Evolutionary arms races between prey and a predator are believed to be the main factor influencing the potency and composition of predatory venoms.
Ondřej Michálek, Glenn F. King, Stano Pekár   +2 more
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Purification and Characterization of the Pink-Floyd Drillipeptide, a Bioactive Venom Peptide from Clavus davidgilmouri (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Drilliidae)

Toxins, 2020
The cone snails (family Conidae) are the best known and most intensively studied venomous marine gastropods. However, of the total biodiversity of venomous marine mollusks (superfamily Conoidea, >20,000 species), cone snails comprise a minor fraction ...
Victor M. Chua, Joanna Gajewiak, Maren Watkins, Samuel S. Espino, Iris Bea L. Ramiro, Carla A. Omaga, Julita S. Imperial, Louie Paolo D. Carpio, Alexander Fedosov, Helena Safavi-Hemami, Lilibeth A. Salvador-Reyes, Baldomero M. Olivera, Gisela P. Concepcion   +12 more
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The archaeology of shellfishing practices on Ua Huka, Marquesas Archipelago (French Polynesia)

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 251-274, July 2024.
Abstract Shellfish remains are ubiquitous to coastal archaeological sites in the Marquesas but have seldom been the focus of dedicated investigations into their contribution to past diet and daily life. On the island of Ua Huka, in the northern group of the archipelago, people have consumed a variety of shellfish since their arrival on the island ...
Gabrielle Traversat, Eric Conte, Guillaume Molle   +2 more
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Diversity and preserved shell coloration patterns of Miocene Conidae (Neogastropoda) from an exposure of the Gatun Formation, Colón Province, Panama

, 2018
Extant members of the neogastropod family Conidae (cone snails) are renowned for their often dazzling shell coloration patterns and venomous feeding habits.
Jonathan R. Hendricks
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Investigating the Upper Holocene palaeoenvironment and human subsistence strategy in the Khor Rori coastal area by studying mollusc remains from the Inqitat plateau (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 608-625, May 2024.
ABSTRACT Archaeological shells have a great potential for reconstructing past environments and human–environment interactions. The Inqitat plateau (Khor Rori Archaeological Park, Oman) shows rich mollusc assemblages, present in the HAS1 settlement and in a shell midden nearby (Iron Age).
Gaia Crippa, Silvia Lischi, Mauro Cremaschi   +2 more
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Moluscos asociados al arrecife coralino de Tenacatita, Jalisco, en el Pacífico central mexicano

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2013
Se presenta un análisis de las especies de moluscos del arrecife coralino de Tenacatita, Jalisco en el Pacífico central mexicano. El estudio incluye especies encontradas tanto en la estructura arrecifal como en los fondos blandos circundantes y en la ...
Victor Landa Jaime, Jesus Emilio Michel Morfín, Judit Alicia de Jesus Arciniega Flores, Sergio Castillo Vargasmachuca, Mirella Saucedo Lozano   +4 more
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