The late Cenozoic viviparidae (mollusca, gastropoda) of the Albertine Rift Valley (Uganda-Congo)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 390, Issue , 1998, Pages 171-217

  Van Damme, D ^a   Pickford, M ^b,c  

^a Laboratorium voor Paleontologie   (Belgium)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bellamya; Bottlenecking; Evolution; Kaya; Lacustrine endemism; Neothauma; Palaeoecology; Prey predator coevolution; Punctuated equilibrium; Rift lakes; Taxonomy; Thalassoidism; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CENOZOIC; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; MOLLUSC;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032451288     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003518218109     Document Type: Article

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