The late Cenozoic Thiaridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cerithioidea) of the Albertine Rift Valley (Uganda-Congo) and their bearing on the origin and evolution of the Tanganyikan thalassoid malacofauna

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 498, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-83

  Van Damme, Dirk ^a   Pickford, Martin ^b,c  

^a Laboratorium voor Paleontologie   (Belgium)

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

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Ancient rift lakes; Bottle necking; Cleopatra; Convergence; Escalation; Iterative evolution; Melanoides; Potadoma; Potadomoides; Prey predator coevolution; Pseudocleopatra; Punctuated equilibrium; Relict faunas; Thalassoidism

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ORNAMENTATION;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; EVOLUTION; GASTROPOD; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AMPULLARIIDAE; CERITHIOIDEA; CLEOPATRA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOIDES; MOLLUSCA; THIARIDAE; VIVIPARIDAE;

EID: 0344585518     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026298512117     Document Type: Article

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