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Environmental influences upon the expression of shell form in Rissoa parva (da Costa). [Gastropoda: Prosobranchia]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. D. Wigham
G. D. Wigham*
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, University of Reading
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*Present address: Zoology Department, University College of Swansea
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The classification of the Rissoidae has been, and continues to be, based largely upon shell characters. In a group of small animals of variable form this has resulted in a state of considerable taxonomic confusion. Ponder (1965, 1967, 1968), in his works on the New Zealand Rissoidae, attempted to clarify, what he termed, the existing ‘pigeon-hole classification’ in the light of more detailed anatomical investigation. He observed (Ponder, 1967) that ‘many wrong assumptions can be drawn from the study of the shell alone’. In an earlier work Johansson (1939) had also tried to relate the taxonomy of the Rissoidae to anatomical features.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 425 - 438
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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