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Environmental significance of freshwater mollusks in the Southern Pampas, Argentina: To what detail can local environments be inferred from mollusk composition?
(Springer, 2010-02)
The aim of the present contribution is to assess whether the abundance of mollusk species in the Southern Pampas (Argentina), an environmentally homogeneous region, reflect the local conditions of water bodies. In order ...
Microplastic ingestion and feeding ecology in three intertidal mollusk species from Lima, Peru
(Universidad de Valparaíso, 2020)
Holoplanktonic mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Gulf of California, México
(Check List, 2011)
We compiled a checklist of holoplanktonic mollusks obtained from seven oceanographic surveys performed between 2005 and 2007 in the Gulf of California, Mexico. The checklist comprises five orders,15 families, 28 genera and ...
Detection of Nitric Oxide via Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance in Mollusks
(Springer, 2018)
Electronic paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is an appropriate tool to identify free radicals formed in tissues under normal as well as stressful conditions. Since nitric oxide (NO) as a free radical has paramagnetic properties ...
Mollusks as indicators of historical changes in an estuarine-lagoonal system (Cananéia-Iguape, SE Brazil)
(2013-02-06)
Mollusks recovered from three cores taken from the Cananéia-Iguape estuarine-lagoonal system (São Paulo State, Brazil) were studied. The sampled sediments cover a period beginning approximately two centuries ago and end ...
Snail transmitters of schistosomiasis and other mollusks of medical and economic importance at the Simplício Queda Única Hydroelectric Plant, Southeast Brazil
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019)
Los moluscos terrestres y fluviales de la Isla de la Juventud, Archipiélago de los Canarreos, Cuba
(2003-09)
En 1916 Henderson publicó “A list of the land and freshwater shells of the Isle of Pines”, incluyendo 31 especies terrestres y siete fluviales. Espinosa y Ortea (1999) en el catálogo de las especies cubanas mencionan ...
Venomous mollusks: the risks of human accidents by conus snails (gastropoda: conidae) in Brazil
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT, 2006-10-01)
Os moluscos do gênero Conus apresentam um aparato venenoso composto de uma rádula quitinosa ligada a glândulas de peçonha, causando envenenamentos humanos graves e mesmo óbitos pela ação neurotóxica indutora do bloqueio ...