Higher classification and pattern-of evolution of the gastropoda: A synthesis of biological and paleontological data

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 201, 1997, Pages 57-81

  Bandel, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gastropodes; Ontogeny; Phyologeny; Systematic palaeontology

Indexed keywords

ANCYLIDAE; ARCHAEOGASTROPODA; BELLEROPHONTIDA; CAENOGASTROPODA; CARBONIFEROUS; CEPHALOPODA; CERITHIIMORPHA; DOCOGLOSSA; ENTOVALVA; GASTROPODA; LITTORINIMORPHA; MIMOSPIRINA; MOLLUSCA; NEOGASTROPODA; NERITOIDEA; NERITOPSINA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PERUNELOIDEA; PLATYCERATOIDEA; PTEROPODA; PULMONATA; TRIGANGLIONATA;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 0031401481     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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