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Amnicola limosa when their metachromatic glands first appear. Small, irregular masses of mucoid at first closely surround the nuclei of the cells (Figs. 1, 8). Their ducts fill with mucoid almost as soon as the glands can be differentiated. The cells mature rapidly. The initial metachromatic masses indicate the multiple cen-ters of mucoid.
Gastropod diversity is substantial in marine and freshwater habitats, and many aquatic slugs and snails use olfactory cues to guide their navigation behaviour. Examples include finding prey or avoiding predators based on kairomones, or finding potential mates using pheromones. Here, I review the diversity of navigational behaviours studied across the major aquatic taxa of gastropods.
Marstonia comalensis is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.It is found in south central Texas, USA. Marstonia comalensis is large for this genus. It has an ovate-conic, openly umbilicate shell.The penis has a short filament and oblique, squarish lobe bearing a narrow gland along its distal.
Of the approximately 140 non-indigenous species that have invaded the Great Lakes since the early 1800s, few have had greater effects on this ecosystem than the zebra and quagga mussel (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis, respectively).In this study the effects of these bivalves on macroinver-tebrates inhabiting hard substrates in western Lake Erie were quantified.
The non-marine mollusks of Montana — a part of the molluscan fauna of the state in the Northwestern United States.The non-marine mollusks of Montana consist of land snails and slugs as well as freshwater snails, freshwater mussels and freshwater clams.
The following four factors eXPlain 68% of the variation of the population levels of fourteen taxa found in Nipigon Bay (Table 4): Factor 1 is the strongest factor showing a common relationship of the pelecypod Pisidium spp. (0.751) and the gastropods Amnicola limosa (0.595), Bythinia tentaculata (0.967), Valvata tricarinata (0.822), Valvata sincera (0.957) and Gyraulus altissimus (0.912) with.
Foraging organisms must often balance the conflicting demands of feeding and avoiding predators. I investigated whether the freshwater snail Amnicola limosa trades off obtaining food for reducing the risk of mortality from predatory crayfish (Orconectes ).Field surveys and experiments were conducted to determine, first, whether snails altered habitat use when presented with predation risk, and.