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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Hauptverfasser:	Rüdiger Bieler, Timothy M. Collins, Rosemary Golding, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, John M. Healy, Timothy A. Rawlings, Petra Sierwald
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	PeerJ Inc. 2023-10-01
Schriftenreihe:	PeerJ
Schlagworte:	Diversity Mollusca Morphology Phylogeny Polychromatism Sperm ultrastructure
Online-Zugang:	https://peerj.com/articles/15854.pdf
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