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Sabellaria, a polychaete host for the gastropods Noemiamea dolioliformis and Graphis albida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2000

Ian J. Killeen  and
Janice M. Light
Ian J. Killeen
Affiliation:
Malacological Services, 163 High Road West, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9BD, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Janice M. Light
Affiliation:
Carbonate Group, Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Molluscan biogeographical studies around the British Isles and along the north coast of France have revealed a recurring association between the tube-building polychaetes Sabellaria spp. and two marine snails: the pyramidellid gastropod Noemiamea dolioliformis and the aclid, Graphis albida. Whilst few pyramidellids are considered to be host-specific, the evidence from these studies has shown that living animals of N. dolioliformis are only ever associated with Sabellaria spp. There is also a clear relationship between G. albida and Sabellaria spp. but as yet insufficient evidence that it associates only with these polychaetes.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , June 2000 , pp. 571 - 573
Copyright
2000 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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