Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
A phylogenomic and morphometric reassessment of Ovulidae highlights host-related shell shape evolution.
E Nocella, G Fassio, T Lemarcis, P Zaharias, D Tamagnini, N de Leo, N Puillandre, M V Modica, M Oliverio
Published: 202610.1016/j.ympev.2026.108545
Abstract
The egg-cowries comprise a family of specialised carnivorous caenogastropods (Ovulidae Fleming, 1828) that feed by browsing on octocorals, hexacorals and stylasterid hydrozoans. A recent phylogenetic study, employing a Sanger-based multilocus nucleot…
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