Molluscan Radiation - Lesser Known Branches

by Southward; Fuiman; Tyler; Young

• ISBN13: 9780120261420
• ISBN10: 0120261421
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-17
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Volume 42 is a thematic volume with reviews on the biology of four major molluscs. Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University of Texas, USA), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics which will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology, oceanography. Eclectic volumes in the series are supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as The Biology of Calanoid Copepods. Advances in Marine Biology is now No. 1 in the highly competitive category of Marine & Freshwater Biology. The 2000 journals citation report from the Institute for Scientific Information shows that Advances in Marine Biology has an Impact Factor of 3.37, the highest in the field. Key Features * AMB first published 1963 * This volume presnts a selection of reviews on the biology of lesser-known taxa of the phylum Mollusca, including: * The mostly diminutive protobranch bivalves * The slug-like shelled opisthobranchs * The highly specialized and evolutionarily advanced * Tusk shells * The beautiful, priceless, yet frustratingly hard-to-collect slit shells.

Table of Contents

Contributors to Volume 42	v
Series Contents for Last Ten Years	ix
Preface	xiii
Protobranch Bivalves
John D. Zardus
Introduction	2	(2)
Anatomy and Morphology	4	(13)
Feeding	17	(7)
Reproduction and Development	24	(6)
Physiology	30	(1)
Ecology	31	(5)
Zoogeography	36	(5)
Evolution	41	(3)
Conclusions	44	(25)
Acknowledgements	45	(1)
References	46	(23)
Shelled Opisthobranchs
Paula M. Mikkelsen
Introduction	69	(4)
Component Taxa and their Presumed Synapomorphies	73	(8)
Characters and Evolutionary Pathways	81	(26)
History and Tectibranch Phylogenetics	107	(10)
Whence Acteon, the ``Typical'' Opisthobranch?	117	(22)
Acknowledgements	119	(1)
References	120	(9)
Appendices	129	(10)
The Scaphopoda
Patrick D. Reynolds
Introduction	139	(7)
Shell	146	(7)
Mantle Cavity	153	(3)
Gas Exchange	156	(5)
Locomotion	161	(2)
Feeding and Digestion	163	(17)
Circulation and Excretion	180	(8)
Sensation and Innervation	188	(6)
Reproduction and Development	194	(10)
Biogeography	204	(6)
Species-Pair Associations	210	(6)
Diversity through Geologic Time	216	(3)
Conclusions	219	(19)
Acknowledgements	220	(1)
References	220	(18)
Pleurotomarioidean Gastropods
M. G. Harasewych
Introduction	238	(5)
Structure and Functional Morphology	243	(19)
Systematic Relationships	262	(10)
Ecology	272	(23)
Acknowledgements	286	(1)
References	287	(8)
Taxonomic Index	295	(8)
Subject Index	303