NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

         Bibliography for gastropod diets

1 ABBOTT, R. T. 1959. The family Vasidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1: 15-32.
2 ADAM, W. and KNUDSEN, J. 1955. Note sur quelques espèces de mollusques marins nouveau ou peu connus de l’Afrique occidentale. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Bulletin, 31 (61): 1-25, 2 pls.
3 ALLMON, W. D. 1988. Ecology of Recent turritelline gastropods (Prosobranchia, Turritellidae): current knowledge and paleontological implications. Palaios, 3: 259-284.
4 ______________, JONES, D. S. and VAUGHAN, N. 1992. Observations on the biology of Turritella gonostoma Valenciennes (Prosobrancia: Turritellidae) from the Gulf of California. The Veliger, 35: 52-63.
5 ANSELL, A. D. and MORTON, B. 1985. Aspects of naticid predation in Hong Kong with special reference to the defensive adaptations of Bassina (Callanaitis) calophylla (Bivalvia). Pp. 635-660, In Morton, B. & Dudgeon, D. (eds), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 1983. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
6 _____________, and ____________. 1987. Alternative predation strategies of a tropical naticid gastropod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 111: 109-119.
7 BANDEL, K. 1973. Notes on Cypraea cinerea Gmelin and Cyphoma gibbosum (Linnnaeus) from the Caribbean Sea and description of their spawn. The Veliger, 15: 335-337.
8 ___________, and WEDLER, E. 1987. Hydroid, amphineuran and gastropod zonation in the littoral of the Caribbean Sea, Colombia. Senckenbergiana maritima, 19: 1-129.
9 BERG, C. J. Jr. 1975. Behavior and ecology of conch (Superfamily Strombacea) on a deep subtidal algal plain. Bulletin of Marine Science, 25: 307-317.
10 BERGH, R. 1890. Malacologische Untersuchungen. 3. Der Nudibranchien des ‘Sunda-Meeres’ In Semper, C., Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen, 17: 873-991.
11 BEU, A. G. and MAXWELL, P. A. 1987. A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an Appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Palaeontological Bulletin 54, 140 pp.
12 BIELER, R. 1990. Sessile slit-shells; a first look at Tenagodus anatomy and biology (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae) [Abstract]. The Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report, 22: 21-22.
13 __________, and MIKKELSEN, P. M. 1988. Anatomy and reproductive biology of two western Atlantic species of Vitrinellidae, with a case of protandrous hermaphroditism in the Rissoacea. The Nautilus, 102: 1-29.
14 __________, and __________________. 1998. Ammonicera in Florida: notes on the smallest living gastropod in the United States and comments on other species of Omalogyridae (Heterobranchia). The Nautilus, 111: 1-12.
15 BOUCHET, P. and WARÉN, A. 1980. Revision of the north-east Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). (Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement 8), 119pp.
16 BRAWLEY, S. H. and ADEY, W. H. 1982. Coralliophila abbreviata: a significant corallivore. Bulletin of Marine Science, 32: 595-599.
17 BROOM, M. J. 1982. Size-selection, consumption rates and growth of the gastropods Natica maculosa (Lamarck) and Thais carinifera (Lamarck) preying on the biavalve, Anadara granosa (L.). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 56: 213-231.
18 BROWN, K. M. and ALEXANDER, J. E. 1994. Group foraging in a marine gastropod predator: benefits and costs to individuals. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 112: 97-105.
19 BUCK, L. 1993 Pteropurpura trialata (Sowerby, 1834): feeding observations. The Festivus, 25: 57.
20 BURN, R. and THOMPSON, T. E. 1998. Order Cephalaspidea. Pp. 943-959, In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G. J. B., & Wells, A. (eds), Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5. Part B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 565-1115.
21 CHEW, K. K. 1960. Study of food preferences and rate of feeding of the Japanese oyster drill Ocenebra japonica. Special Science Report, US Fish and Widlife Service, 365, 27pp.
22 CLENCH, W. J. and ABBOTT, R. T. 1943. The genera Gaza and Livona in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia, 4(40): 1-80.
23 CROVO, M. E. 1971. Cypraea cervus and Cypraea zebra in Florida - one species or two ? The Veliger, 13: 292-295, 1 pl.
24 DEMAINTENON, M. J. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of the Columbellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) and the evolution of herbivory from carnivory. Invertebrate Biology, 118: 253-258.
25 DUSHANE, H. 1974. The Panamic-Galapagan Epitoniidae. The Veliger, 16. Supplement, 84pp., 15 pls.
26 ____________. 1985. The Family Epitioniidae of Panama Bay. The Festivus, 17(7): 68-75.
27 ENDEAN, R. 1972. Aspects of molluscan pharmacology. Pp. 421-466 In Florkin, M. & Scheer, B. T. (eds), Chemical Zoology, Mollusca, 7. Academic Press, New York.
28 ERIKSSON, S., EVANS, S. and TALLMARK, B. 1975. On the coexistence of scavengers on shallow, sandy bottoms in Gullmar Fjord (Sweden): activity patterns and feeding ability. Zoon, 3: 121-124.
29 FLORES, C. and CACÉRES, R. 1973. La familia Neritidae (Mollusca: Archaeogastropoda) en las aguas costeras de Venezuela. Boletin del Instituto Oceanografico. Universidad de Oriente. Cumana, 12: 3-13.
30 FOSTER, M. S. 1964. Microscopic algal food of Littorina planaxis Philippi and Littorina scutulata Gould (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata). The Veliger, 7: 149-152.
31 FRANZ, C. J. 1990. Feeding patterns of Fissurella species on Isla de Margarita, Venezuela: use of radulae and food passage rates. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 56: 25-35.
32 FRETTER, V.  1951a. Some observations on the British cypraeids. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 29: 14-20.
33 ____________. 1951b. Observations on the life history and functional morphology of Cerithiopsis tubercularis (Montagu) and Triphora perversa (L.). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 29: 567-586.
34 ____________. 1975. Umbonium vestiarium, a filter-feeding trochid. Journal of Zoology, 177: 541-552.
35 ____________. 1976. The anatomy and feeding of the volutacean prosobranch Volvarina taeniolata Mörch. Journal of Moluscan Studies, 42: 327-336.
36 ____________, and GRAHAM, A. 1978. The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 4 - marine Rissoacea. (Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement, 6). Pp. 153-241.
37 ____________, and ___________. 1981. The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 6 - Cerithiacea, Strombacea, Hipponicacea, Calyptraeacea, Lamellariacea, Cypraeacea, Naticacea, Tonnacea, Heteropoda. (Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement, 9). Pp. 285-362.
38 ____________, and ___________. 1994. British prosobranch molluscs; their functional anatomy and ecology. Revised and updated edition. Dorset Press, Dorchester. xix, 820pp.
39 ____________,  ___________, and ANDREWS, E. B. 1986. The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 9 - Pyramidellacea. (The Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement 16). Pp. 557-649.
40 ____________, and MANLY, R. 1977. Algal associations of Tricolia pullus, Lacuna vincta and Cerithiopsis tubercularis (Gastropoda) with special reference to the settlement of their larvae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 57: 999-1017.
41 ____________, and __________. 1979. Observations on the biology of some sublittoral prosobranchs. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 48: 209-218.
42 GARRARD, T. A. 1975. A revision of Australian Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum, 30:1-62.
43 GRAHAM, A. 1939. On the structure of the alimentary canal of style-bearing prosobranchs. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 109: 75-112.
44 ____________. 1954. The anatomy of the prosobranch Trichotropis borealis Broderip & Sowerby, and the systematic position of the Capulidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 33: 129-144.
45 ____________. 1966. The R/V Pillsbury deep-sea biological expedition to the Gulf of Guinea, 1964-65. 8. The fore-gut of some marginellid and cancellariid prosobranchs. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 4(1): 134-151.
46 GRIFFITHS, R. J. 1981. Predation on the bivalves Choromytilus meridionalis (Kr.) by the gastropod Natica (Tectonatica) tecta Anton. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 47: 112-120.
47 GUERRERO, S. and REYMENT, R. A. 1988. Predation and feeding in the naticid gastropod Naticarius intricatoides (Hidalgo). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 68: 49-52.
48 GUNTER, G. and MENZEL, R. W. 1957. The crown conch, Melongena corona, as a predator upon the Virginia oyster. The Nautilus, 70: 84-87.
49 HADFIELD, M. G. 1976. Molluscs associated with living tropical corals. Micronesica, 12: 133-148.
50 HARASEWYCH, M. G. 1990. Ovophagy in Anachis avara (Say, 1822) (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). The Nautilus, 104: 76.
51 ____________________, and PETIT, R. E. 1982. Notes on the morphology of Cancellaria reticulata (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae). The Nautilus, 96: 104-113.
52 ____________________, and ___________. 1984. Notes on the morphology of Olsonella smithii (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae). The Nautilus, 98: 37-44.
53 HARDISON, L. K. and KITTING, C. L. 1985. Epiphytic algal browsing by Bittium varium (Gastropoda) among Thalassia testudinium turtlegrass. Journal of Phycology, 21: 13.
54 HASZPRUNAR, G. 1985a. Zur Anatomie und systematischen Stellung der Architectonicidae (Mollusca, Allogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta, 14: 25-43.
55 ________________. 1985b. On the anatomy and systematic position of the Mathildidae (Mollusca, Allogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta, 14: 201-213.
56 HATFIELD, E. B. 1979. Food sources for Anachis avara (Columbellidae) and a discussion of feeding in the family. The Nautilus, 93: 40-46.
57 HATHAWAY, R. E. and WOODBURN, K. D. 1961. Studies on the Crown Conch Melongena corona Gmelin. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 11: 45-65.
58 HAYES, T. 1983. The influence of diet on local distribution of Cypraea. Pacific Science, 37: 27-36.
59 HEALY, J. M. and WELLS, F. E. 1998.  Superfamily Cerithioidea. Pp. 707-733 In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G. J. B., & Wells, A. (eds), Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5. Part B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, viii, 565-1234pp.
60 HERBERT, D. G. 1991. Foraminiferivory in a Puncturella (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57: 127-140.
61 HEWISH, D. R. 1990. Marginellidae feeding habits; Dracula meets the chainsaw massacre. Australian Shell News, 70: 1-3.
62 HICKMAN, C. S. 1985. Comparative morphology and ecology of free-living suspension-feeding gastropods from Hong Kong. Pp. 217-234 In Morton, B. & Dudgeon, D. (eds), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Malacofauna of Hong Kong and of Southern China, Hong Kong, 1983.  Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
63 _______________. 1998. Superfamily Trochoidea. Pp. 671-692 In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G. J. B., & Wells, A. (eds), Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5. Part B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, viii, 565-1234pp.
64 _______________, and LIPPS, J. H. 1983. Foraminiferivory; selective ingestion of foraminifera and test alterations produced by the gastropod Olivella. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 13: 108-114.
65 _______________, and MCLEAN, J. H. 1990. Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 35, vi, 169 pp.
66 HIRANO, Y. 1981. Comparative ecological studies of the habitat and habit of intertidal limpets. Journal of Science, Hiroshima University, Series B, Division 1, 29: 1-45.
67 HOUBRICK, R. 1974. Growth studies on the genus Cerithium (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) with notes on ecology and microhabitats. The Nautilus, 88: 14-27.
68 ______________. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1: the genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca, 1: 250-430.
69 ______________. 1980. Observations on the anatomy and life history of Modulus modulus (Prosobranchia: Modulidae). Malacologia, 20: 117-142.
70 ______________. 1987a. Anatomy, reproductive biology, and phylogeny of the Planaxidae (Cerithiacea: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 445. iii + 57pp.
71 ______________. 1987b. Anatomy of Alaba and Litiopa (Prosobranchia: Litiopidae): systematic implications. The Nautilus, 101: 9-18.
72 ______________. 1990. Anatomy, reproductive biology and systematic position of Fossarus ambiguus (Linné) (Fossarinae: Planaxidae; Prosobranchia). Açoreana, Supplemento 1990: 59-73.
73 ______________. 1991. Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia). Malacologia, 33: 289-338.
74 ______________. 1992. Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 510: iv, 2111 pp.
75 ______________. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships and generic review of the Bittiinae (Prosobranchia: Cerithioidea). Malacologia, 35: 261-313.
76 ______________, and FRETTER, V. 1969. Some aspects of the functional anatomy and biology of Cymatium and Bursa. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 38: 415-429.
77 HUGHES, R. N. 1978. The biology of Dendropoma corralinaceum and Sepulorbis natalensis. Two South African vermetid gastropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 64: 111-127.
78 _____________. 1985. Feeding behaviour of the sessile gastropods Vermicularia pellucida and Stephopoma pennatum (Turritellidae, Vermiculariinae). Journal  of Molluscan Studies, 51: 320-325.
79 _____________. 1986. Laboratory observations on the feeding behaviour, reproduction and morphology of Galeodea echinophora (Gastropoda, Cassidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86: 355-365.
80 _____________, and EMERSON, W. K. 1987. Anatomical and taxonomic characteristics of Harpa and Morum (Neogastropoda: Harpidae). The Veliger, 29: 349-358.
81 _____________, and HUGHES, H. P. I. 1981. Morphological and behavioural aspects of feeding in the Cassidae (Tonnacea, Mesogastropoda). Malacologia, 20: 385-402.
82 HURST, A. 1965.  Studies on the structure and function of the feeding apparatus of Philine aperta with a comparative consideration of some other opisthobranchs. Malacologia, 2: 221-347.
83 KABAT, A. R. 1990. Predatory ecology of naticid gastropods with a review of shell boring predation. Malacologia, 32: 155-193.
84 KANTOR, Y. I. and HARASEWYCH, M. G. 1992. Morphology of the digestive system of Volutomitra alaskana Dall, 1902 (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Volutomitridae), with notes on the possible mechanism of feeding. Ruthenica, 2: 45-53.
85 _____________, and ___________________. 1994. The diet of Pisania tincta (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in eastern Florida. The Veliger, 37: 119-120.
86 _____________, and MEDINSKAYA, A. I. 1991. Morphology and feeding of Mitrella burchardi (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Asian Marine Biology, 8: 25-33.
87 _____________,  _________________, and TAYLOR, J. D. 1997. Foregut anatomy and relatioships of the Crassispirinae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (London), Zoology Series, 63: 55-92.
88 _____________, and TAYLOR, J. D. 1994. The foregut anatomy of Strictispira paxillus (Reeve, 1845) (Conoidea: Strictispiridae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 60: 343-346.
89 KAY, E. A. 1960. The functional morphology of Cypraea caputserpentis L. and the interpretation of the relationships among the Cypraeacea. Internationale Revue Gesamten Hydrobiologie, 45: 175-196.
90 KLEINSTEUBER, H. 1913. Die Anatomie von Trochita, Calyptraea und Janacus. Zoologischer Jahrbücher. Supplement, 13: 385-476.
91 KOHN, A. J. 1970. Food habits of the gastropod Mitra litterata Lamarck: relation to trophic structure of the intertidal marine bench community in Hawaii. Pacific Science, 24: 483-486.
92 __________, NISHI, M., and PERNET, B. 1999. Snail spears and scimitars: a character analysis of Conus radular teeth. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 65: 461-481.
93 __________, TAYLOR, J. D.,and WAI, J. M. 1997. Diets of predatory gastropods of the families Mitridae and Buccinidae in the Houtman Abolhos Islands, Western Australia.  Pp. 133-139, In Wells, F. E. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Vol. 1. Western Australia Museum, Perth.
94 KNUDSEN, J. 1991. Observations on Hipponix australis (Lamarck, 1819) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) from the Alabany area, Western Australia. Pp. 641-660 In Wells, F. E., Walker, D. I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds), Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Fauna and Flora of Albany, Western Australia. Vol. 2. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 722 pp.
95 ____________. 1993. Observations on Antisabia foliacea (Quoy and Gaimard, 1835) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Hipponicidae) from off Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Pp. 481-495 In Wells, F. E., Walker, D. I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds), Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Fauna and Flora of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Vol. 2. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 634 pp.
96 KOHLMEYER, J. and BEBOUT, B. 1986. On the occurrence of marine fungi in the diet of Littorina angulifera and observations on the behaviour of the periwinkle. Marine Ecology, 7: 333-343.
97 KROPP, R. K. 1982. Response of five holothurian species to attack by a predatory gastropod, Tonna perdix. Pacific Science, 36: 445-452.
98 LAXTON, J. H. 1971. Feeding in some Australasian Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Zoological Journal of the Linnnean Society, 50: 1-9.
99 LEMCHE, H. 1956. The anatomy and biology of Cylichna (Gastropoda Tectibranchia). Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis, 16: 1-278.
100 LEVINGS, S. C. and GARRITY, S. D. 1983. Diel and tidal movements of two co-occurring neritid snails: differences in grazing patterns on a tropical rocky shore. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 67: 61- 278.
101 LITTLE, C. 1989. Factors governing patterns of foraging activity in littoral marine herbivorous molluscs. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 55: 273-284.
102 LITTLEWOOD, D. T. J. 1989. Predation on cultivated Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding) by the gastropod Cymatium pileare (Linnaeus). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 55: 125-127.
103 LÓPEZ, A., MONTOYA, M., and LÓPEZ, J. 1998. A review of the genus Agaronia (Olividae) in the Panamic Province and the description of two new species from Nicaragua. The Veliger, 30: 295-304.
104 MAES, V. O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 119: 93-217.
105 __________. 1983. Observations on the systematics and biology of a turrid gastropod assemblage in the British Virgin Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science, 33: 305-335.
106 __________, and RAEIHLE, D. 1976.  Systematics and biology of Thala floridana (Gastropoda: Vexillidae). Malacologia, 15: 43-67.
107 MARCUS, Er. and MARCUS, Ev. Du B.-R. 1959. Studies on Olividae. Boletin da Facultade de Filosofia. Ciencias e Letias. Universidad de Sao Paulo, 232,( Zoologia, 22): 99-188.
108 ____________, and ____________________. 1960. Opisthobranchia aus dem Roten Meer und von dem Maldiven. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Naturwissenshaftlichen Klasse, 12: 873-933.
109 ____________, and ____________________. 1962a. On Leucozonia nassa. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 261 (Zoologia, 24): 11-24.
110 ____________, and ____________________. 1962b. Studies on Columbellidae. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras da Universidade de Sao Paulo, 261 (Zoologia, 24): 335-384.
111 MARSHALL, B. A. 1978. Cerithiopsidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of New Zealand, and a provisional classification of the family. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 5: 47-120.
112 _______________. 1983. A revision of the Recent Triphoridae of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 2, 119 pp.
113 _______________. 1995. Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea). The Veliger, 38: 92-115.
114 MARTINS, A. M. de F. 1996. Anatomy and systematics of the western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia, 37: 163-332.
115 MCLEAN, J. H. 1992. Cocculiniform limpets (Cocculinidae and Pyropeltidae) living on whale bone in the deep sea off California. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 58: 401-414.
116 MENGE,  J. L. 1974. Prey selection and foraging period of the predacious rocky intertidal snail, Acanthina punctulata. Oecologia, 17: 293-316.
117 METZ, G. 1995. Agaronia eats Olivella. The Festivus, 27: 86-87.
118 MIKKELSEN, P. M. 1996. The evolutionary relationships of Cephalaspidea s.l. (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia): a phylogenetic analysis. Malacologia, 37: 375-442.
119 MILLER, A. C. 1968. Some observations on the ecology and behavior of Lucapinella callomarginata. The Veliger, 11: 130-134.
120 MILLER, B. A. 1970. Feeding mechanisms in the family Terebridae. Reports of the American Malacological Union, Pacific Division, 1970: 72-74.
121 MILLER, J. A. 1989. The toxoglossan proboscis: structure and function. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 55: 167-181.
122 MILLER, R. L. 1968. Some observations on the ecology and behaviour of Lucapinella callomarginata. The Veliger, 11: 130-134.
123 MOORE, D. R. 1972. Cochliolepis parasitica, a nonparasitic marine gastropod, and its place in the Vitrinellidae. Bulletin of Marine Science, 22: 100-112.
124 MORITZ, C. E. 1938. The anatomy of the gastropod Crepidula adunca Sowerby. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43: 217-248.
125 MORRIS, R. H., ABBOTT, D. P. and HADERLIE, E. C. 1980. Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ix, 690 pp.
126 MORTON, B.  1986. The diet and prey capture mechanism of Melo melo (Prosobranchia: Volutidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 52: 156-160.
127 ____________. 1990. Prey capture, preference and consumption by Linatella caudata (Gastropoda: Tonnoidea: Ranellidae) in Hong Kong. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 56: 477-486.
128 ____________. 1991. Aspects of predation by Tonna zonatum (Prosobranchia: Tonnoidea) feeding on holothurians in Hong Kong. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57: 11-20.
129 MORTON, J. E. 1951. The structure and adaptation of the New Zealand Vermetidae. Part II. The genera Stephopoma and Pyxipoma. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 79: 20-42.
130 ______________. 1958. The adaptations and relationships of the Xenophoridae (Mesogastropoda). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 33: 89-101.
131 ______________. 1965. Form and function in the evolution of the Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 11: 585-630.
132 NEWELL, S. Y. and BÄRLOCHER, F. 1993. Removal of fungal and total organic matter from decaying cordgrass leaves by shredder snails. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 171: 39-49.
133 OLSSON, A. A. 1970. The cancellariid radula and its interpretation. Paleontographica Americana, 7(43): 19-27, 3 pls.
134 OSORIO, C., JARA, F. and RAMIREZ, M. E. 1993. Diet of Cypraea caputdraconis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as it relates to food availability in Easter Island. Pacific Science 47: 34-42
134b O’SULLIVAN, J. B., MCCONNAUGHEY, R. R. and HUBER, M. E. 1987. A blood-sucking snail: the Cooper’s Nutmeg, Cancellaria cooperi Gabb, parasitizes the California Electric Ray, Torpedo californica Ayres. Biological Bulletin, 172: 362-366.
135 PAINE, R. T. 1963. Trophic relationships of 8 sympatric predatory gastropods. Ecology, 44: 63-73.
136 ___________. 1966. Function of labial spines, composition of diet and size of certain marine gastropods. The Veliger, 9: 17-24.
137 PERNET, B. and KOHN, A. J. 1988. Size-related obligate and facultative parasitism in the marine gastropod Trichotropis cancellata. Biological Bulletin, 195: 349-356.
138 PERRON, F. E. 1975. Carnivorous Calliostoma (Prosobranchia: Trochidae) from the northeastern Pacific. The Veliger, 18: 52-54.
139 PERRON, F. E. and TURNER, R. D. 1978. The feeding behaviour and diet of Calliostoma occidentale, a coelenterate-associated prosobranch gastropod. The Journal of Molluscan Studies, 44: 100-103.
140 PETUCH, E. J. 1988. Neogene history of tropical American mollusks. Biogeography & evolutionary patterns of tropical Western Atlantic Mollusca. CERF, Charlottesville. 217pp.
141 PILSBRY, H. A. and MCGINTY, T. L. 1945-1946. Cyclostrematidae and Vitrinellidae of Florida. The Nautilus, 59. Part I - pp. 1-13; Part 2 - pp. 53-59; 1946 part 3 - pp. 77-83; part 4, pp. 12-18; part 5, pp 85-87.
142 PONDER, W. F. 1968. Anatomical notes on two species of the Colubrariidae (Mollusca, Prosobranchia). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 10(24): 217-223.
143 ______________. 1972. The morphology of some mitriform gastropods with special reference to their alimentary and reproductive systems (Neogastropoda). Malacologia, 11: 295-342.
144 ______________. 1983. A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Recent Australian fossil species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 17, 1-126.
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