Conchological differentiation in an ongoing radiation of lanistes gastropods from ancient lake malawi: How adaptive is shell morphology?

Geologica Belgica

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 118-119

  Gurdebeke, Pieter R ^a   Van Bocxlaer, Bert ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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