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The relationship of larval shell morphology to mode of development in marine prosobranch gastropods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Gail M. Lima  and
Richard A. Lutz
Gail M. Lima
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903, USA
Richard A. Lutz
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903, USA
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Abstract

The larval shell of molluscs contains a preserved record of the organism's growth and developmental history. Many investigators have utilized the information recorded in the larval shell morphology to infer mode of development.

Marine prosobranch gastropods were collected from intertidal sites from Maine to Florida and were cultured in the laboratory. Scanning electron microscopy was used to document the relationship of larval shell morphology to development. Four species with planktotrophic larvae, Crepidula fornicata, Crepidula plana, Cerithium atratum and Ilyanassa obsoleta, and four species with non-planktotrophic development, Crepidula convexa, Littorina obtusata, Busycon canaliculatum and Urosalpinx cinerea, were successfully reared through metamorphosis.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , August 1990 , pp. 611 - 637
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1990

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