Use of a mucus thread for vertical movements in the tropical freshwater snail Mayabina pliculosa (Pulmonata: Physidae): a correction

Use of a mucus thread for vertical movements in the tropical freshwater snail Mayabina pliculosa (Pulmonata: Physidae): a correction

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  • Julián Mónge-Najera

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https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v2i2.163

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Locomoción, flotación, caracol pulmonado, corrección, Costa Rica.

Resumen

El caracol dulceacuícola tropical Mayabina pliculosa (“Aplexa fuliginea”) usa hilos de mucus para moverse verticalmente en la columna de agua, no flotación como se informó previamente.

Citas

Baker, F. C. 1911. The Lymnaeidae of North and Middle America, Recent and Fossil. Special Publication 3, Chicago Academy of Sciences, p. 33.

Dawson, J. 1911. The Biology of Physa. Cold Spring Harbor Behavior Monographs 1: 1 - 120.

Deliagina, T.G. & G. N. Orlovsky. 1990. Control of locomotion in the freshwater snail Planorbis corneus. I. Locomotory repertoire of the snail. Journal of Experimental Biology 152: 389-404.

Monge-Nájera, J. 1984. Preliminary observations on the ecology and behavior of Aplexa fuliginea (Pulmonata: Physidae). Brenesia 22: 69-83.

Taylor D. W. 2003. Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299.

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2010-12-01

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Mónge-Najera, J. (2010). Use of a mucus thread for vertical movements in the tropical freshwater snail Mayabina pliculosa (Pulmonata: Physidae): a correction. UNED Research Journal, 2(2), 263. https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v2i2.163

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