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The Mollusca are a large, diverse, and economically important group that ranges from slugs and snails through clams and oysters to octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. They are evolutionarily ancient and better known than most invertebrate groups because of their calcareous skeletons, which has led to their excellent preservation as fossils. This is a state-of-the-art summary of research into Molluscs and their evolution, including recent developments in phylogenetic analysis and molecular techniques. Since the last book on this topic was published in 1985, the vast amount of updated information found here should be on the bookshelf of every zoologist, evolutionary biologist, and taxonomist.
| List of contributors | ||
| 1 | The Mollusca: coelomate turbellarians or mesenchymate annelids? | 3 |
| 2 | Synapomorphies and plesiomorphies in higher classification of Mollusca | 29 |
| 3 | Phylogenetic position of Sipuncula, Mollusca and the progenetic Aplacophora | 53 |
| 4 | Origin of Aculifera and problems of monophyly of higher taxa in molluscs | 59 |
| 5 | An evolutionary tree for the Mollusca: branches or roots? | 67 |
| 6 | Early evolution of the Mollusca: the fossil record | 77 |
| 7 | Ultrastructure of the heart-kidney complex in smaller classes supports symplesiomorphy of molluscan coelomic characters | 89 |
| 8 | Molluscan sperm ultrastructure: correlation with taxonomic units within the Gastropoda, Cephalopoda and Bivalvia | 99 |
| 9 | Shell pores (caeca, aesthetes) of Mollusca: a case of polyphyly | 115 |
| 10 | Evolution of high-latitude molluscan faunas | 119 |
| 11 | Gastropod phylogeny - challenges for the 90s | 135 |
| 12 | The significance of the early cleavage pattern for the reconstruction of gastropod phylogeny | 155 |
| 13 | Patterns of morphologic diversification during the initial radiation of the "Archaeogastropoda" | 161 |
| 14 | Anatomy and affinities of lepetid limpets (Patellogastropoda = Docoglossa) | 171 |
| 15 | Phylogeny and patterns of evolutionary radiation in trochoidean gastropods | 177 |
| 16 | Evolutionary systematics of Jurassic Trochoidea: the family Colloniidae and the subfamily Proconulinae | 199 |
| 17 | The Littorina saxatilis species complex - interpretation using random amplified polymorphic DNAs | 205 |
| 18 | Evolutionary radiations in the Cypraeidae | 211 |
| 19 | Phylogeny and relationships of Neogastropoda | 221 |
| 20 | The Diaphanidae as a possible sister group of the Sacoglossa (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) | 231 |
| 21 | Development and homologies of the anal gland in Haminaea navicula (Da Costa, 1778) (Opisthobranchia, Bullomorpha) | 249 |
| 22 | Contrasting developmental strategies and speciation in N.E. Atlantic prosobranchs: a preliminary analysis | 261 |
| 23 | Phylogenetic relationships of the pulmonate gastropods from rRNA sequences, and tempo and age of the stylommatophoran radiation | 267 |
| 24 | Relationships within the Ellobiidae | 285 |
| 25 | Parallelism in the origin of the G-type clausilial apparatus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) | 295 |
| 26 | Allozyme variation in some Cretan Albinaria (Gastropoda): paraphyletic species as natural phenomena | 301 |
| 27 | Crab predation as a selective agent on shelled gastropods: a case study of Calliostoma zizyphinum (Prosobranchia: Trochidae) | 313 |
| 28 | Suprageneric phylogeny in Scaphopoda | 329 |
| 29 | The evolutionary history of the Bivalvia | 337 |
| 30 | The early evolution of the Bivalvia | 361 |
| 31 | The phylogenetic significance of some anatomical features of bivalve veliger larvae | 371 |
| Index | 381 |
Overview
The Mollusca are a large, diverse, and economically important group that ranges from slugs and snails through clams and oysters to octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. They are evolutionarily ancient and better known than most invertebrate groups because of their calcareous skeletons, which has led to their excellent preservation as fossils. This is a state-of-the-art summary of research into Molluscs and their evolution, including recent developments in phylogenetic analysis and molecular techniques. Since the last ...