New land mollusks from Madagascar and Mexico.

v.44:no.3(1961)

Tetraploidía en Ceratophrys (Anura, Leptodactylidae), análisis del registro fósil

It has been confirmed the existence of the tetraploid counterpart of the genus Ceratophrys Wied, 1824 (extint at the present time) in Argentina and Brazil since the Pliocene, and the apparition of the octaploidy in the Upper Pleistocene - Holocene. Fossil material of the diploid form, distinctive of the Chacoan District, has been reported from the horizons of the Montehermosense Formation in south-east of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The coexistence of diploid-tetraploid and tetraploid-octaploid forms in the same province was documented.

Some mollusks from Afghanistan / Alan Solem.

n.s. no.1(1979)

Nova espécie de Heleobia (Rissooidea, Hydrobiidae) da planície costeira do sul do Brasil

Heleobia robusta, new species from plain coast of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is described. Conchology, conchometry, soft-part morphology including head-food, pallial structures, radula and some aspects of the female and male reproductive systems are provided.

Veronicellid land slugs from the New Hebrides, with description of Semperula solemi, new species.

v.51:no.12(1969)

Alimentação do peixe-rei (Odontesthes bonariensis, Atherinopsidae) nas lagoas Mirim e Mangueira, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Foi estudada a alimentação natural do peixe-rei (Odontesthes bonariensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1835) nas lagoas Mirim e Mangueira, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. O conteúdo estomacal de 60 indivíduos de peixe-rei (Odontesthes bonariensis) provenientes dessas lagoas mostraram que esta espécie tem amplo espectro alimentar. Uma grande variedade de alimentos é consumida, sem afetar o crescimento, pois os peixes dos dois ambientes apresentaram condição corporal semelhante. Na lagoa Mangueira, crustáceos (Isopoda) representaram 65% da dieta dos peixes e na lagoa Mirim, moluscos (Bivalvia e Gastropoda) perfizeram 70% dos conteúdos de estômago identificados.

Catalogue of type specimens of Foraminifera in the Walker Museum of Paleontology / Matthew H. Nitecki --.

v.13:no.2(1961)

Comparative microscopic dental anatomy in the Petalodontida (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) / Rainer Zangerl --, H. Frank Winter --, Michael C. Hansen --.

n.s. no.26(1993)

The Mazon Creek caridoid Crustacea / Frederick R. Schram --

v.30:no.2(1974)

New crinoids from the Chicago area / by Arthur Ware Slocom, Asst. Curator, Section of Invertebrate Paleontology. Oliver Cummings Farrington, Curator, Dept. of Geology.

v.2:no.10(1907)

The mammalian fauna of Madura Cave, Western Australia. Macropodidae: Potoroinae / Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. -- William D. Turnbull --.

n.s. no.14(1984)

Cacops (Amphibia : Labyrinthodontia) from the Fort Sill Locality, Lower Permian of Oklahoma / John R. Bolt --.

v.37:no.3(1977)

A recently discovered Phlegethontia from Illinois / by William D. Turnbull and Priscilla F. Turnbull.

v.37:no.19(1955)

Notes on land slugs, Deroceras from Afghanistan, including description of D. kandaharensis [by] C. O. van Regteren Altena.

v.51:no.15(1970)

Shell utilization pattern of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus (Crustacea, Anomura) in an estuary at São Vicente, State of São Paulo, Brazil

We evaluated the gastropod shell utilization pattern of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus (Bosc, 1802) at Pescadores Beach in São Vicente, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Specimens were collected monthly from May 2001 through April 2003, in the intertidal zone at low tide. The crabs were weighed and their carapace shield length measured. All gastropod shells were identified and had their shell biometric parameters (total length and aperture length) measured (mm) and weighed (g). A total of 2,344 hermit crabs (644 males, 1,594 females, 45 ovigerous females and 61 individuals in intersex), using 13 species of gastropod shells, were collected. Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767), Cymatium parthenopeum (Von Salis, 1793) and Achatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) comprised over 98% of all the shells. Male and intersex crabs were significantly larger than the females. This size difference strongly influenced the shell utilization pattern, principally in A. fulica, which has the largest shell size, that was only used by males and intersexual individuals of C. vittatus. Cymatium parthenopeum was the only shell species that showed a high determinant coefficient in all the biometric correlations evaluated. The high abundance of S. haemastoma shells and a strong correlation between crab size and shell aperture length established by a significant determination coefficient, indicated that C. vittatus uses this species as the principal resource for shell occupation at Pescadores Beach.