Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae)

Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles allowing quick withdrawal into better protect...

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Autores principales: Bieler, Rüdiger, Collins, Timothy M., Golding, Rosemary, Granados-Cifuentes, Camila, Healy, John M., Rawlings, Timothy A., Sierwald, Petra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
Materias:
Biodiversity
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10569170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842057
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15854

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10569170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842057
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15854

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