CONGRESS SCHEDULE
JULY 10th

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE (some evening sessions may last 20 min. longer)
MONDAY 16 JULY
T 103
T 105
T 129
T 148
09:00-09:30
Welcoming and announcements in T103
09:40-11:00
Neogastropods
Terrestrial molluscs
Eye
Mol.Phyl.Evol.
11:30-12:50
Neogastropods
Terrestrial molluscs
Eye
Mol.Phyl.Evol.
12:50-14:00
Lunch + AMS/AMB closed meeting in U 024
14:00-15:40
Neogastropods
Terrestrial molluscs
Eye
Pest control
16:10-17:50
Neogastropods
Terr.molluscs/Mol.Phyl.Evol.
Eye
Pest control
TUESDAY 17 JULY
T 103
T 105
T 129
T 148
09:00-10:00
Neogastropods
Evolution
EQMal
Ecotoxicology
10:00-10:40
Inventory
Evolution
EQMal
Ecotoxicology
11:10-12:50
Inventory
Evolution
EQMal
Ecotoxicology
12:50-14:00
Lunch + AMS systematics meeting in U 024
14:00-15:00
Inventory
Evolution
EQMal
Ecotoxicology
15:00-16:10
Inventory
Evolution
Heart
Ecotoxicology
16:10-17:50
Inventory
Evolution
Heart
Ecotoxicology
16:10-18:00
Curator's meeting in U 024
16:30-17:30
EQMal formal meeting in U ­003
18:00-20:00
Poster session in main hall T building
THURSDAY 19 JULY
T 103
T 105
T 129
T 148
U 024
09:00-10:40
Inventory
Evolution
Sexual
Zoogeography
Bivalve
selection
E Mediterranean
taxonomy
11:10-12 :50
Inventory
Evolution
Sexual
Zoogeography
Mol.phyl.
selection
E Mediterranean
bivalves
12:50-14 :00
Lunch + AMS conservation committee meeting in U 024
14:00-15:40
Micro-
Evolution
Marine
Freshwater
molluscs
ecology
Molluscs
16:10-17:50
Micro-
Evolution
Marine
Opisth.
molluscs
ecology
syst.&phyl.
19:00-21:00
AMS auction at TPC ­ building R
FRIDAY 20 JULY
T 103
T 105
T 129
T 148
U 024
09:00-10:40
Micro-
Evolution
Sexual
Freshwater
molluscs
selection
bivalves
11:10-12:50
Micro-
General
Sexual
Freshwater
molluscs
tax.&phyl.
selection
bivalves
12:50-14:00
Lunch + AMS students meeting in U 024
14:00-15:40
Micro-
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Deep sea
Freshwater
molluscs
bivalves
16:10-17:10
Unitas Malacologica general meeting in T 103
17:10-18:10
AMS general meeting in T 103
20:00-???
Congress diner at `Grand Café Horta'
SATURDAY 21 JULY
09:30-17:00
IUCN SSC Specialist Group meeting in U 024
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Conference Program
MONDAY 16 JULY
Lecture hall T 103
09:00 ­ 09:30 Welcoming and announcements: Thierry Backeljau
NEOGASTROPOD ORIGINS, PHYLOGENY,
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS
Chair: Jerry Harasewych
09:40 ­ 10:00 Origin and early radiation of the Neogastropoda: Evidence from nuclear
and mitochondrial genes
Harasewych, M.G.
10:00 ­ 10:20 What is supporting the Neogastropoda monophyly? New evidences for the
paraphyly
Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander
10:20 ­ 10:40 Proboscis morphology in Caenogastropoda: Does the neogastropod
proboscis have a homologue?
Golding, Rosemary E.
10:40 ­ 11:00 Kidney anatomy of neogastropods: New insights into relationships,
affinities and evolutionary dynamics
Strong, Ellen E.
11:00 ­ 11:30 Tea/Coffee
NEOGASTROPOD ORIGINS, PHYLOGENY,
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS
Chair: Jerry Harasewych
11:30 ­ 11:50 Evaluation of Neogastropoda of the Cretaceous, their taxonomy and
relation based on the morphology of their protoconch
Bandel, Klaus
11:50 ­ 12:10 The road to an endemic Southeast Pacific fauna: Neogene neogastropods
from Chile and Peru
Nielsen, Sven N.; DeVries, Thomas J.
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12:10 ­ 12:30 To live or not to live in mud: The Neogastropod side of the story
Fortunato, Helena
12:30 ­ 12:50 A molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae--a southern and a northern
connection
Hayashi, Seiji
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Publications and AMB meeting (closed meeting) in Lecture
hall U 024
NEOGASTROPOD ORIGINS, PHYLOGENY,
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS
Chair: Ellen Strong
14:00 ­ 14:20 Early ontogeny in buccinid gastropods: inferences from morphology
Vendetti, Jann E.
14:20 ­ 14:40 Morpho-phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Colinae (Buccinidae,
Neogastropoda)
Kosyan, Alisa R.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Adaptive significance of secondarily reduced features of the soft anatomy
of Vitularia salebrosa (Neogastropoda: Muricidae): Experimental,
geochemical, and anatomical evidence
Herbert, Gregory S.; Simone, Luiz R.; Fortunato, Helena; Sliko, Jennifer;
Dietl, Gregory P.
15:00 ­ 15:20 The coralliophilines radiation: repeated dives into the deep?
Oliverio, Marco; Richter, Alexandra; Barco, Andrea; Modica, Maria
Vittoria
15:20 ­ 15:40 Accounts on the phylogeny of the Muricidae (Caenogastropoda) based on
comparative morphology of some representatives
Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
NEOGASTROPOD ORIGINS, PHYLOGENY,
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS
Chair: Ellen Strong
16:10 ­ 16:30 Using molecular approaches to investigate the function of the
hypobranchial gland of the marine snail, Dicathais orbita
Laffy, Patrick W.; Benkendorff, Kirsten; Westley, Chantel; Abbott,
Catherine A.
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16:30 ­ 16:50 The genesis of Tyrian purple precursors in the gonoduct and egg masses of
Dicathais orbita (Neogastropoda: Muricidae)
Westley, Chantel; Benkendorff, Kirsten
16:50 ­ 17:10 The enigmatic neogastropod Tritonoharpa: New data on cancellariid
evolution
Modica, Maria Vittoria; Kosyan, Alisa; Oliverio, Marco
17:10 ­ 17:30 Sexual dimorphism in the shells of the South-Western Atlantic gastropod
Olivella plata (Ihering, 1908) (Mollusca: Olividae)
Pastorino, Guido
17:30 ­ 17:50 Reproductive studies on volutes of the South West Atlantic
(Neogastropoda: Volutidae)
Penchaszadeh, Pablo E.; Arrighetti, Florencia; Bigatti, Gregorio; Cledón,
Maximiliano; Giménez, Juliana Carlos Sanchez, Antelo
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MONDAY 16 JULY
Lecture hall T 105
OPEN SESSION: TERRESTRIAL MOLLUSCS
Chair: Beata Pokryszko
09:40 ­ 10:00 Land snail faunas in Polish forests: history, geography and ecology
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ameron, Robert A.D. ; Pokryszko, Beata M.; Horsak, Michal
10:00 ­ 10:20 Regional and local scale effects on the richness and composition of land
snail assemblages in Hungary
Sólymos, Péter; Jónás, Ágota
10:20 ­ 10:40 Snails from America's heartland: diversity and abundance of terrestrial
gastropods in Southern Illinois, USA
Coppolino, Marla L.
10:40 ­ 11:00 Land-snail diversity in a threatened limestone formation in Odukpani,
Cross River State, Nigeria
Oke, Chris O.
11:00 ­ 11:30 Tea/Coffee
OPEN SESSION: TERRESTRIAL MOLLUSCS
Chair: Robert Cameron
11:30 ­ 11:50 Contribution to the revision of the biodiversity of Tunisian terrestrial
Malacofauna
Abbes, Intidhar; Nouira, Saïd
11:50 ­ 12:10 Rhytididae in Madagascar: reality or wishful thinking?
Herbert, D.G.; Moussalli, A.; Griffiths, O.
12:10 ­ 12:30 Systematic and distributional studies of Colombian continental mollusks ­
The land snail genera Isomeria Beck and Labyrinthus Beck (Gastropoda:
Camaenidae)
Borrero, Francisco J.; Kattan, Gustavo; Giraldo, Manuel
12:30 ­ 12:50 Biogeography and systematic concepts of Helicinidae in the Lesser An-
tilles (Gastropoda: Neritopsina)
Richling, Ira
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Publications and AMB meeting (closed meeting) in Lecture
hall U 024
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OPEN SESSION: TERRESTRIAL MOLLUSCS
Chair: Heike Reise
14:00 ­ 14:20 Pupilloidea (Pupillidae, Vertiginidae, Valloniidae, Gastrocoptinae) of the
Altay ­ a travel in space and time
Pokryszko, Beata M.; Horsák, Michal
14:20 ­ 14:40 New data on Paleozoic continental gastropods from Poland: Sedimentary
and evolutionary context
Stworzewicz, Ewa; Pokryszko, Beata M.; Szulc, Joachim
14:40 ­ 15:00 Synanthropic terrestrial mollusc faunas of Colorado and Utah
Hutchinson, John M.C.; Reise, Heike
15:00 ­ 15:20 Life cycles of the Polish clausiliids ­ knowns and unknowns
Maltz, Tomasz K.; Sulikowska-Drozd, Anna
15:20 ­ 15:40 Harmonic radar evidence for wind dispersal and homing capability in the
tree snail genus Achatinella (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae)
Hall, Kevin T.; Hadfield, Michael G.
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
OPEN SESSION: TERRESTRIAL MOLLUSCS
Chair: John Hutchinson
16:10 ­ 16:30 Active camouflage in a snail
Allgaier, Christoph
16:30 ­ 16:50 When a snail dies in the forest, how long will the shell persist?
Pearce, Timothy A.
OPEN SESSION: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Chair: Piyoros Tongkerd
16:50 ­ 17:10 Molecular systematics of North American Ferrissia (Pulmonata:
Ancylidae)
Walther, Andrea
17:10 ­ 17:30 Achatinellid land snails of the Pacific islands: phylogenetics,
phylogeography and evolution
Parker, Meaghan E.
17:30 ­ 17:50 Tahitian tree snail mitochondrial clades survived recent mass-extirpation
Lee, Taehwan; Burch, John B.; Jung, Younghun; Coote, Trevor; Pearce-
Kelly, Paul; Ó Foighil, Diarmaid
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MONDAY 16 JULY
Lecture hall T 129
MOLLUSCAN MODELS: ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EYE
Chair: Laura Robles
09:40 ­ 10:20 Developing molluscan models to study the disease, ecology, and evolution
of the eye
Serb, Jeanne M.
10:20 ­ 11:00 Photoreception and the evolution of photoreceptors (with special reference
to Mollusca)
Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried
11:00 ­ 11:30 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCAN MODELS: ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EYE
Chair: Laura Robles
11:30 ­ 12:10 Evolution of mollusc lens crystallins
Piatigorsky, Joram
12:10 ­ 12:50 Eye structure and vision among gastropods
Zieger, Marina
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Publications and AMB meeting (closed meeting) in Lecture
hall U 024
MOLLUSCAN MODELS: ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EYE
Chair: Jeanne Serb
14:00 ­ 14:20 The genus Buccinanops (d' Orbigny, 1841): No eyes or blind eyes?
Averbuj, Andres; Penchaszadeh, Pablo E.
14:20 ­ 14:40 Chitons as potential models for investigating recent and parallel evolution
of eyes
Eernisse, Douglas J.
14:40 ­ 15:20 Using the Octopus retina to understand the cell biology of the eye:
Surprises and clues!
Robles, Laura J.; Kelly, Shannon
15:20 ­ 15:40 Analysis of the 3' untranslated regions of -tubulin and S-crystallin
mRNA and identification of CPEB in dark- and light-adapted octopus
retinas
Kelly, Shannon; Robles, Laura
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15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCAN MODELS: ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EYE
Chair: Jeanne Serb
16:10 ­ 16:50 The evolution of eyes in the Bivalvia: new insights
Morton, Brian
16:50 ­ 17:10 Scallops visually respond to simulated particles in flow
Speiser, Daniel I; Johnsen, Sönke
17:10 ­ 17:50 Receptor physiology in bivalve eyes and the role of primary inhibition
Wilkens, Lon A.
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MONDAY 16 JULY
Lecture hall T 148
OPEN SESSION: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Chair: Somsak Panha
09:40 ­ 10:00 Phylogenetic relationships of the southeast Asian land operculate snails of
the genus Cyclophorus (Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae) using DNA
sequence data
Tongkerd, Piyoros, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Douzery, Emmanuel, Jaeger,
Jean-Jacques; Panha, Somsak
10:00 ­ 10:20 On the identity of two New World ampullariids, Pomacea lineata and
Pomacea figulina
Thiengo, S.C.; Hayes, K.; Mattos, A.; Fernandez, M.A.; Cowie, R.H.
10:20 ­ 10:40 Populations of baikalian endemic mollusks Baicalia carinata (Mollusca:
Caenogastropoda) and evolution relation with close related species.
Peretolchina, Tatiana E.; Sherbakov, Dmitry Yu; Sitnikova, Tatiana Ya
10:40 ­ 11:00 New evidence for old names: On the systematics of Neotropical
freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae,
Thiaridae)
Gomez, Maria; von Rintelen, Thomas; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Strong, Ellen
E.; Köhler, Frank
11:00 ­ 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 ­ 11:50 Genetic differentiation in Maakia herderiana (Mollusca, Gastropoda)
Fazalova, Varvara; Sherbakov, Dmitry
11:50 ­ 12:10 The widespread slug Limax maximus Linnaeus, 1758 (Gastropoda:
Pulmonata): species boundaries and redescription
Hyman, Isabel T.; Klee, Barbara; Schneppat, Ulrich; Haszprunar, Gerhard
12:10 ­ 12:30 Hidden genetic diversity in cephalopods: cryptic speciation or deep
mitochondrial coalescent events?
Anderson, Frank E.
12:30 ­ 12:50 Population genetic structure of a sympatric squid-Vibrio mutualism in the
Mediterranean Sea
Zamborsky, Daniel J.; Nishiguchi, Michele K.
This open session is continued in the afternoon, lecture hall T105 from 16:50 ­ 17:50.
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12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Publications and AMB meeting (closed meeting) in Lecture
hall U 024
MOLLUSCS AND PEST CONTROL
Chair: Rita Triebskorn
14:00 ­ 14:40 Controlling slugs and snails ­ will hope triumph over experience?
Port, Gordon
14:40 ­ 15:00 Pest snails in Australia: current management strategies and challenges for
the future
Lush, Angela L.; Baker, G.H.
15:00 ­ 15:20 Impacts of three seasonal soil management regimes on slug abundance and
slug damage to oilseed rape
El Titi, Adel
15:20 ­ 15:40 Mortality to the giant African snail Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822
and non-target snails using select molluscicides
Ciomperlik, Matthew A.; Robinson, David G.; Gibbs, Ian H.; Fields,
Angela; Stevens, Timothy ; Taylor, Bret M.
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AND PEST CONTROL
Chair: Bill Bailey
16:10 ­ 16:30 The use of microencapsulated BioBullets in the control of invasive
bivalves
Aldridge, David C.
16:30 ­ 16:50 Application of a 16S rDNA barcode to diagnose pest Arion species in the
U.S.A.
Barr, Norman; Cook, Amanda; Elder, Peggy, Molongoski, John, Prasher,
Douglas; Robinson, David
16:50 ­ 17:10 Local adaptations, races or even species?
Engelke, Sabine
17:10 ­ 17:30 Molecular diversity among populations of the terrestrial slugs Arion
lusitanicus and Arion rufus (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Arionidae) in Poland
Soroka, Marianna, Kaluski, Tomasz , Kozlowski, Jan, Wiktor, Andrzej
17:30 ­ 17:50 General discussion
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TUESDAY 17 JULY
Lecture hall T 103
NEOGASTROPOD ORIGINS, PHYLOGENY,
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS
Chair: Yuri Kantor
09:00 ­ 09:20 Comparative anatomy of selected Philippine Cone snails (Neogastropoda)
Baoanan, Zenaida Gutay, Cruz, Lourdes J.; Pagulayan, Roberto C.;
Lagunzad, Daniel A.
09:20 ­ 09:40 New insights on the phylogeny of the Conoidea (Neogastropoda) using
molecular data
Puillandre, Nicolas; Samadi, Sarah; Boisselier, Marie-Catherine; Bouchet,
Philippe
09:40 ­ 10:00 A combinatorial phylogenetic analysis of Conoidea
Meyer, Christopher P..; Duda, Thomas F.; Rawlings, Timothy; Kohn,
Alan J.; Todd, Jonathan A.; Olivera, Baldomero M., Watkins, Maren;
Ownby, John-Paul; Thomas, Richard
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Philippe Bouchet
10:00 ­ 10:40 Inventorying the molluscan fauna of the world: how far to go?
Bouchet, Philippe
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Philippe Bouchet
11:10 ­ 11:30 Cryptic diversity of gastropods in oxygen-poor intertidal habitats;
systematics, ecology and evolution of the Phenacolepadidae
Kano, Yasunori
11:30 ­ 11:50 Poorly explored jewels of the tropics - diversity in non-pulmonate land
snails of the family Helicinidae (Neritopsina)
Richling, Ira
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11:50 ­ 12:10 Devil in the detail: Scissurellid systematics in the making (Gastropoda:
Vetigastropoda)
Geiger, Daniel L.
12:10 ­ 12:30 Palaeoheterdonta MMVII: A cosmopolitan assessment of freshwater
mussel diversity
Graf, Daniel L.; Cummings, Kevin S.
12:30 ­ 12:50 Evolving with friendly bacteria: global diversity of lucinid bivalves
reviewed
Glover, Emily A.; Taylor, John D.
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Systematics Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Daniel Geiger
14:00 ­ 14:20 Global opisthobranch biodiversity: Are they evolving faster than we can
find them?
Gosliner, Terrence
14:20 ­ 14:40 What shall we do with the old descriptions?
Jensen, Kathe R.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Inventorying the molluscan fauna of the world - The role and impact of
malacological serials
Bieler, Rüdiger
15:00 ­ 15:20 Marine cryptic diversity: the allopatric component
Meyer, Christopher P.
15:20 ­ 15:40 Molecular versus morphological taxonomy: a case study of character
evaluation in marine Gastropoda
Gittenberger, Adriaan
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Rüdiger Bieler
16:10 ­ 16:30 Approaches and problems in species delimitation of tropical freshwater
snails: examples from Southeast Asian pachychilids
von Rintelen, Thomas; Köhler, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias
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16:30 ­ 16:50 Cutting the Gordian knot of a taxonomic impediment: A plea for MOTU-
numbers (Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units)
Klee, B.; Hyman, I.; Wiktor, A.; Haszprunar, G.
16:50 ­ 17:10 Amphidromus revisited: A fresh look at the conchologist's favourite land
snail genus
Panha, Somsak; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Tongkerd, Piyoros; Prasankok,
Pongpun; Yasin, Zulfigar; Tan, Aileen; Ng, Peter; Clements, Reuben;
Moolenbeek, Robert; Maassen, Wim; Naggs, Fred; Asami, Takahiro
17:10 ­ 17:30 Diversity of terrestrial snails in Papua New Guinea: Have we only
scratched the surface?
Slapcinsky, John
17:30 ­ 17:50 Malacology in the arid areas of the Middle East unexplored or empty?
Neubert, Eike
Curator's meeting - Lecture hall U 024
16:10 ­ 18:00 Contact Julia Sigwart
Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
16:30 ­ 17:30 Formal meeting of EQMal
Main hall of T building
18:00 ­ 20:00 POSTER SESSION
(with juice, wine, Belgian beers and cheeses)
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TUESDAY 17 JULY
Lecture hall T 105
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Matthias Glaubrecht
09:00 ­ 09:20 Molluscs as models in evolutionary biology: from local speciation to
global radiation - Introduction to the symposium
Glaubrecht, Matthias; von Rintelen, Thomas
09:20 ­ 10:00 Global patterns of diversity and speciation in tropical marine mollusks
Williams, Suzanne; Reid, David
10:00 ­ 10:20 Historical biogeography and phylogenetics of the Pacific Succineidae
Cowie, Robert H.; Holland, Brenden S.
10:20 ­ 10:40 Replaying the tape: replicated biogeographic patterns in Cape Verde
Conus
Cunha, Regina L.; Tenorio, Manuel J.; Rüber, Lukas; Afonso, Carlos;
Castilho, Rita; Zardoya, Rafael
10:40 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Thomas von Rintelen
11:10 ­ 11:30 Marine and brackish water phylogeography of southeastern Australian
Mollusca
Colgan, D.J.; da Costa, P.; Reutelshöfer, T.; Golding, R.E.
11:30 ­ 11:50 Mudwhelks in mangroves: the evolutionary history of the Potamididae
Reid, David G.; Williams, Suzanne; Lozouet, Pierre; Glaubrecht, Matthias
11:50 ­ 12:10 Diversity, speciation and historical biogeography of Bullidae
Malaquias, Manuel António E.; Reid, David G.
12:10 ­ 12:30 Ancient vicariance and recent dispersal of springsnails (Hydrobiidae:
Pyrgulopsis) in the Death Valley System, California-Nevada
Hershler, Robert; Liu, Hsiu-Ping
12:30 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Systematics Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
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MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Christian Albrecht
14:00 ­ 14:20 Phylogeography and evolution of the Caribbean land snail family
Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): radiation in isolation
Uit de Weerd, Dennis
14:20 ­ 14:40 Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the polytypic genus
Pyrenaearia
Elejalde, M. Arantzazu ; Madeira, María José ; Prieto, Carlos E.;
Backeljau, Thierry ; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Comparative analysis of land snail radiations on Crete
Sauer, Jan; Hausdorf, Bernhard
15:00 ­ 15:20 Evolutionary patterns of the terrestrial mollusc genus Everettia and
Meghimatium in the Northern Borneo
Liew, Thor-Seng; Schilthuizen, Menno
15:20 ­ 15:40 Achatina fulica: its molecular phylogeny and genetic variation in global
populations
Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Hudelot, Cendrine; Naggs, Fred; Wade, Chris
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Dennis Uit de Weerd
16:10 ­ 16:30 Fast trails versus hard shells: using defensive traits in aquatic gastropods
as a model system for exploring questions in evolutionary ecology
Rundle, Simon D.
16:30 ­ 16:50 Witnessing a 'wave of advance'
Gittenberger, Edmund
16:50 ­ 17:10 Climbing the gene trees: a first molecular step towards elucidating the
extreme morphological variation within Abida secale
Kokshoorn, Bas; Gittenberger, E.
17:10 ­ 17:30 Examination for shell surface adaptations to water management in a rock-
dwelling land snail
Giokas, Sinos
17:30 ­ 17:50 Waddington´s widget in the field: Do different stress response strategies
result in variations of pulmonate shell variability?
Köhler, Heinz-R.; Lazzara, Raimondo; Dittbrenner, Nils; Krais, Stefanie;
Capowiez, Yvan; Mazzia, Christophe; Triebskorn, Rita
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Curator's meeting - Lecture hall U 024
16:10 ­ 18:00 Contact Julia Sigwart
Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
16:30 ­ 17:30 Formal meeting of EQMal
Main hall of T building
18:00 ­ 20:00 POSTER SESSION
(with juice, wine, Belgian beers and cheeses)
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TUESDAY 17 JULY

Lecture hall T 129
QUATERNARY MALACOLOGY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
PALAEOECOLOGY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
Chair: Richard Preece
09:00 ­ 09:40 Amino acids in calcite: a tiny time-capsule for the Quaternary
Penkman, K.E.H.; Maddy, D.; Keen, D.H.; Preece, R.C.; Collins, M.J.
09:40 ­ 10:00 The Holsteinian: MIS 7, 9 or 11?
Meijer, Tom
10:00 ­ 10:20 Occurrence of Retinella (Lyrodiscus) in Quaternary west-european
sequences: taxonomical status and palaeoclimatic implication
Limondin-Lozouet, Nicole
10:20 ­ 10:00 Millennial-timescale environmental changes recorded by molluscan fauna
at Nussloch (Germany) during the last glaciation and perspectives in
quantitative palaeoclimatic reconstructions in quaternary malacology
Moine, Olivier; Rousseau, Denis-Didier; Antoine, Pierre
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
QUATERNARY MALACOLOGY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
PALAEOECOLOGY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
Chair: Nicole Limondin
11:10 ­ 11:30 Analysis of shell growth, structure and chemical composition of ocean
quahog (Arctica islandica)
Dunca, Elena; Mutvei, Harry; Göransson, Peter; Mörth, Carl-Magnus;
Whitehouse, Martin J; Elfman, Mikael
11:30 ­ 11:50 Environmental insights into the Crag Sea: investigation of growth rates of
Pliocene Arctica islandica from the Coralline Crag (UK)
Harper, E.M.; Finlayson, A.; Richardson, C.A.
11:50 ­ 12:10 Changes in Quaternary mollusc assemblages in Eastern Hungary in Late
Quaternary
Nyilas, István
12:10 ­ 12:30 Late Glacial-Early Holocene environmental change at Favignana island
(Sicily - Italy): evidence from malacological records in prehistoric deposit
Colonese, A.C.; Lo Vetro, D.; Martini, F.
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12:30 ­ 12:50 Application of marine mollusk remains from shell middens for
paleoenvironmental reconstructions
Antipushina, Zhanna
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Systematics Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
QUATERNARY MALACOLOGY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
PALAEOECOLOGY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
Chair: Frank Wesselingh
14:00 ­ 14:20 Molluscan evidence of woodland disturbance in the Irish Holocene
Speller, George R.; Preece, Richard C.
14:20 ­ 14:40 Reconstruction of the pleniglacial environment based of molluscan
assemblages of the Titel Old Brickyard Section (Vojvodina, Serbia)
Gaudenyi, Tivada; Jovanovic, Mladjen; Markovic, Slobodan B.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Holocene molluscan successions from the Lake Baikal region, Siberia
Preece, Richard C.; White, Dustin; Shchetnikov, Alexander A.
15:00 ­ 17:50 Symposium: HEART AND CIRCULATION IN MOLLSUCS (see next
page)
Curator's meeting - Lecture hall U 024
16:10 ­ 18:00 Contact Julia Sigwart
Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
16:30 ­ 17:30 Formal meeting of EQMal
Main hall of T building
18:00 ­ 20:00 POSTER SESSION IN MAIN HALL
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TUESDAY 17 JULY
Lecture hall T 129
HEART AND CIRCULATION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Robert Hill
15:00 ­ 15:20 Countercurrent and continuity in gastropods
Voltzow, Janice
15:20 ­ 15:40 Scaling of metabolism of the pelagic squid Dosidicus gigas
Trueblood, Lloyd; Seibel, Brad
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
HEART AND CIRCULATION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Robert Hill
16:10 ­ 16:30 Heterometric autoregulation in the bivalve heart
Collis, Leon; Sun, Ying; Hill, Robert B.
16:30 ­ 16:50 Molluscan models for cardiac physiology
Hill, Robert B.; Kuwasawa, Kiyoaki; Sun, Ying
16:50 ­ 17:10 Control of a mollusc heart by 5-hydroxytryptamine and acetylcholine
receptor subtypes
Devlin, C. Leah; Folger, Peter; Heinz, Justin; Nieves, Joyce; Sverzhin,
Maksim
17:10 ­ 17:30 The effects of salinity changes on the heart rate of two species of bivalvia
in long-term experiment
Bakhmet, I.N.; Komendantov, A.J.; Smurov, A.O.
17:30 ­ 17:50 General discussion
Curator's meeting - Lecture hall U 024
16:10 ­ 18:00 Contact Julia Sigwart
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Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
16:30 ­ 17:30 Formal meeting of EQMal
Main hall of T building
18:00 ­ 20:00 POSTER SESSION IN MAIN HALL
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TUESDAY 17 JULY

Lecture hall T 148
MOLLUSCS IN ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Rita Triebskorn
09:00 ­ 09:40 Gastropod species as model organisms in ecotoxicology ? Introducing the
molecular view
Dallinger, Reinhard
09:40 ­ 10:00 Effect of metal accumulation and metallothionein induction on the
condition of the periwinkle Littorina littorea along the entire Scheldt
estuary
Van den Broeck, Heidi; De Wolf, Hans; Backeljau, Thierry; Blust, Ronny
10:00 ­ 10:20 Metal speciation and metallothionein induction after cadmium exposure in
the terrestrial snail Helix aspersa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)
Hispard, Florian; Schuler, Dietmar; de Vaufleury, Annette; Dallinger,
Reinhard
10:20 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS IN ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Kurt Jordaens
11:10 ­ 11:30 Biomarkers as tools to assess the risk of environmental stress for terrestrial
and aquatic gastropods
Triebskorn, Rita; Dittbrenner, Nils; Krais, Stefanie; Lazzara, Raimondo;
Sawasdee, Banthita; Schmidt, Lena; Köhler, Heinz-R.
11:30 ­ 11:50 Cytogenetic damage in aquatic mollusks as a biomarker of environmental
pollution
B
ar s ien÷, Janina ; Rybakovas, Aleksandras; Andreik÷nait÷, Laura
11:50 ­ 12:10 Behavioural and reproductive biomarkers of organophosphate pesticide
(Delvap) in the giant land snail Archachatina marginata (Swainson)
Fadina, Opeyemi A; Otitoloju, Adebayo A; Egonmwan, Rosemary I.
12:10 ­ 12:30 Comparative assessment of reproductive toxicity of contaminated
freshwater sediments by in vivo biotests with Potamopyrgus antipodarum
and in vitro assays
Mazurova, E.; Blaha, L.; Hilscherova, K.; Giesy, J. P.; Triebskorn, R.
12:30 ­ 12:50 Potamopyrgus antipodarum as a test organism for the assessment of
endocrine active chemicals
Schmitt, Claudia; Bervoets, Lieven; De Deckere, Eric; Meire, Patrick
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12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Systematics Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
MOLLUSCS IN ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Chair: Reinhard Dallinger
14:00 ­ 14:20 Estrogenic active compounds in bivalve molluscs: physiological role in
reproductive development and potential for endocrine disruption?
Knigge, Thomas; Monsinjon, Tiphaine; Denier, Xavier; Labadie, Pierre;
Peck, Mika R.; Trigwell, Jackie; Dussart, Georges; Puinean, Alin-Mirel;
Rotchell, Jeanette; Hill, Elizabeth M.; Minier, Christophe
14:20 ­ 14:40 Cell and tissue-level biomarkers in slugs (Arion ater) are reliable tools for
health assessment in soil ecosystems
Marigómez, Ionan; Castilla, Ane M.; Zaldibar, Beñat; Angulo, Eduardo;
Soto, Manu
14:40 ­ 15:00 Does lead poison snails?
Beeby, Alan
15:00 ­ 15:20 Effects of Cd+ on the calcium metabolism and shell mineralization of
bivalve Anodonta cygnea
Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Hinzmann, Mariana; Faubel, David; Machado,
Jorge
15:20 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
16:10 - 16:30 Assessing effects of heavy-metal pollution on short term growth and
periodical growth patterns of Protothaca thaca (Mollusca: Veneridae)
using calcein as a growth marker
Riascos, José M.; Saavedra, Rodrigo J.; Heilmayer, Olaf; Laudien, Jürgen;
Guzman, Nury
16:30 ­ 16:50 Combined effects of tidal conditions and environmental contamination on
the activities of antioxidant enzymes in Mytilus edulis
Letendre, Julie; Vince, Erwann; Budzinski, Hélène; Leboulenger,
François; Durand, Fabrice
16:50 ­ 17:50 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCCD) affects shell mineralization
of the freshwater bivalve Anodonta cygnea L.
Barrias, Cláudia; Silva, Luís; Lemos, Carolina; Oliveira, Eduardo; Rebelo
da Costa, Augusta
Curator's meeting - Lecture hall U 024
16:10 ­ 18:00 Contact Julia Sigwart
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Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
16:30 ­ 17:30 Formal meeting of EQMal
Main hall of T building
18:00 ­ 20:00 POSTER SESSION IN MAIN HALL
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WEDNESDAY 18 JULY
WCM conference trips
All excursions will be leaded by a WCM-representative.
All trips start at the car parking in front of the congress site at Campus Groenenborger of
the University of Antwerp. There will be three groups of buses waiting for you ­ one for
the Brugge trip, one for the Bouillon trip and one for the Verdronken Land van
Saeftinghe + biking trip.
The three groups of buses will depart at different times; please make sure that you are in
time for your trip! The WCM-representative for the trip will be waiting for you at the bus
and their will be signs guiding you to the correct bus.
Please check the WCM conference trip information that was sent to you be email for
more details.
Bus departures:
Brugge: 9:00 am at congres campus (WCM representative: Wim De Belder)
Saeftinghe: 9:30 am at congress campus (WCM representative: Lobke Dillen)
Castle of Bouillon / Monastery of Orval: 7:15 at Roosevelt Plaats (centre of Antwerp) or
7:30 am at the congress campus (WCM representatives: Hilde Vrijders, Vanya Prévot,
Thierry Backeljau)
Biking tour: 9:30 am at the congress campus (WCM representative: Kurt Jordaens)
Lecture hall U -003 (Bioruimte)
EQMal: Workshop on Quaternary Mollusca.
Start: 10:00 am
People working on fossil (mostly non-marine) Mollusca from European Quaternary
deposits often meet taxonomic problems that can hardly be solved by the use of existing
literature that is mostly concerned with extant species. Along with its meetings EQMal
often organizes workshops at which molluscan paleontologists can discuss these
problems under the microscope. Anyone who wants to contribute and discuss matters of
taxonomy, identification, stratigraphy, etc. is invited to attend the workshop. Those who
intend to contribute to the workshop are asked to submit the topics and taxa they should
like to discuss. Contact Tom Meijer (meijert@naturalis.nl.)
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THURSDAY 19 JULY
Lecture hall T 103
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Gary Rosenberg
09:00 ­ 09:20 Terrestrial malacofauna of Central Asia: results of more than 150 years of
exploration
Muratov, Igor V.; Sysoev Alexander, V.
09:20 ­ 09:40 Inventories for the Dark Continent: compiling African checklists
Seddon, Mary; Rowson, Ben; Tattersfield, Peter; Lange, Charles; Ngereza,
Christine
09:40 ­ 10:00 Exploring biodiversity in caves and limestone: an open window on
Polynesia's lost paradise
Gargominy, Olivier; Fontaine, Benoît
10:00 ­ 10:20 Updating the gastropod fauna of the Northeastern Pacific
McLean, James H.
10:20 ­ 10:40 Bivalvia: Inventories and taxonomy in the Indian Ocean
Oliver, Graham P.
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Graham Oliver
11:10 ­ 11:30 Is anything left to be discovered in the malacofauna of Western Europe?
Gofas, Serge
11:30 ­ 11:50 Malacological studies in a mega-diverse and poor country as Brazil
Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
11:50 ­ 12:10 The need for an inventory of the world's molluscan fauna: a conservation
perspective
Seddon, Mary; Cuttelod, Annabelle; Darwall, Will; Stuart, Simon
12:10 ­ 12:30 Towards a global taxonomic authority list for the Mollusca
Rosenberg, Gary
12:30 ­ 12:50 Expanding museum collections by indirect field work
Callomon, Paul
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12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024 + General discussion Symposium
Inventorying the molluscan fauna of the world: frontiers and perspectives
in Lecture hall U 025
MICROMOLLUSCS: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, EXCITING
RESULTS
Chair: Daniel Geiger
14:00 ­ 14:20 Collecting micromolluscs ­ the key to a good survey
Gofas, Serge
14:20 ­ 14:40 New techniques yield new insights on the basic biology of living
Microgastropods
Hickman, Carole S.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Small fossil gastropods: their meaning for phylogeny and diversity
Nützel, Alexander
15:00 ­ 15:20 Microgastropod population changes from the Late Cretaceous to recent in
the Gulf Coastal Plain of the USA
Garvie, Christopher, L.
15:20 ­ 15:40 Micromolluscs in Japan: recent findings and future subjects
Sasaki, Takenori
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MICROMOLLUSCS: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, EXCITING
RESULTS
Chair: Bernhard Ruthensteiner
16:10 ­ 16:30 Diversity of microgastropod fauna in Northwestern Pacific: A case study
of Heterostrophans in Japan
Hasegawa, Kazunori
16:30 ­ 16:50 "Niku-nuki", a useful method for preparation of shell-bearing molluscan
specimens
Fukuda, Hiroshi; Haga, Takuma; Tatara, Yuki
16:50 ­ 17:10 A phylogeny of the minute thyasirids (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) based on
morphological investigations
Barry, Peter; McCormack, Grace
17:10 ­ 17:30 Digital imaging of micro bivalves
Turner, James A.; Oliver, Graham P.
17:30 ­ 17:50 The nervous system of Solenogastres ­ a confocal view
Todt, Christiane; Wanninger, Andreas
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Theologisch Pastoraal Centrum (TPC) ­ Building R
19:00 ­ 21:00 Auction of the American Malacological Society at the Theologisch
Pastoraal Centrum (TPC). Contact: Paula Mikkelsen
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THURSDAY 19 JULY
Lecture hall T 105
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Carole Hickman
09:00 ­ 09:40 What molluscs can tell us about the genesis of biodiversity in ancient Lake
Ohrid
Wilke, Thomas; Albrecht, Christian
09:40 ­ 10:00 A DNA-based phylogeny resolves divergent and convergent evolution of
limpets (Lottiidae)
Eernisse, Douglas J.; Hewson, William E.; Kelly, Ryan P.
10:00 ­ 10:20 Reproduction, ecology and evolution of the Indo-Pacific limpet
Scutellastra flexuosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Lindberg, David R.
10:20 ­ 10:40 Evolution and biogeography of Southeast Asian viviparids (Gastropoda:
Caenogastropoda)
Franke, Helena; Riedel, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Köhler, Frank; von
Rintelen, Thomas
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Thomas Wilke
11:10 ­ 11:30 Molluscan radiations and extinctions in Miocene Amazonian long-lived
lake Pebas
Wesselingh, Frank P.
11:30 ­ 11:50 Melanoides from Lake Turkana: a documentation of speciation and case
study for "punctuated equilibrium"?
Scholz, Henning; Glaubrecht, Matthias
11:50 ­ 12:10 The Turkana mollusks reconsidered: punctuational evolutionary events or
biological invasions?
Van Bocxlaer, Bert; Van Damme, Dirk; Feibel, Craig S.
12:10 ­ 12:30 Punctuated equilibrium alive? How living Azorian Drouetia Gude, 1911
(Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae) can tell a fossil story
Martins, António M. de Frias
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12:30 ­ 12:50 The evolutionary adaptation of mollusks to deep-sea vents: insights from
their fossil history
Kiel, Steffen
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Julia Sigwart
14:00 ­ 14:20 Molluscan mito-genomics: chances and pitfalls in phylogenetics
Steiner, Gerhard; Dreyer, Hermann
14:20 ­ 14:40 Land snails versus mammals: chromosomal neighbourhood of genes
drives the ,,phylogenetic impact" of DNA sequences
Armbruster, Georg F.J.
14:40 ­ 15:00 Does the size of molecular matrices really matter? Using molecular loci in
`Archaeogastropod' phylogenies
Aktipis, Stephanie W.; Giribet, Gonzalo
15:00 ­ 15:20 Hemocyanin: a 'respiratory' chance for molluscan phylogenetics
Lieb, Bernhard; Streit, Klaus
15:20 ­ 15:40 Crystallographic textures of shell layers in Patellogastropoda: a new tool
unraveling their phylogeny
Frýda, Jií; Sasaki, Takenori
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Gerhard Steiner
16:10 ­ 16:30 Radiation and diversity of primitive living chitons ­ unravelling the base
of the polyplacophoran family tree
Sigwart, Julia D.
16:30 ­ 16:50 A molecular phylogeny of apple snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda:
Ampullariidae) with emphasis on the African species
Jørgensen, Aslak; Kristensen, Thomas K.; Madsen, Henry
16:50 ­ 17:10 Molecular systematics and evolutionary patterns of diversification in New
World Ampullariidae
Hayes, Kenneth A.
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17:10 ­ 17:30 Germany's next top model? Towards a morphological phylogeny and
evolution of acochlidian opisthobranch gastropods
Schrödl, Michael; Neusser, Timea
17:30 ­ 17:50 Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Zonites (Gastropoda, Pulmonata).
The new era of systematics in the pulmonate molluscs
Mylonas, Moisis; Kornilios, Panagiotis; Poulakakis, Nikos;
Vardinoyannis, Katerina
17:50 ­ 18:10 Evolutionary relationships in the pulmonate stylommatophoran land snails
and slugs
Hudelot, Cendrine; Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Mordan, Peter; Naggs, Fred;
Wade, Chris
Theologisch Pastoraal Centrum (TPC) ­ Building R
19:00 ­ 21:00 Auction of the American Malacological Society at the Theologisch
pastoraal Centrum (TPC building R). Contact: Paula Mikkelsen
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THURSDAY 19 JULY

Lecture hall T 129
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Ronald Chase
09:00 ­ 09:20 Shell shape and mating behaviour in hermaphroditic gastropods
(Mollusca, Pulmonata)
Jordaens, Kurt; Dillen, Lobke; Backeljau, Thierry
09:20 ­ 09:40 Sexual selection maintains whole-body chiral dimorphism in snails
Schilthuizen, Menno; Craze, Paul G.; Cabanban, Annadel S.; Davison,
Angus; Stone, Jon; Gittenberger, Edmund; Scott, Bronwen J.
09:40 ­ 10:00 Effects of parasitic mites on behavior and life-history traits of their host,
the land snail Arianta arbustorum
Schüpbach, Hans Ulrich; Baur, Bruno
10:00 ­ 10:20 Motivation to resist sex in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Hoffer, Jeroen N.A.; Koene, Joris M.
10:20 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Joris Koene
11: 10 ­ 11:50 Sexual conflict and conflict resolution in hermaphroditic gastropods
Michiels, Nico K.
11:50 ­ 12:10 Sexual selection and its consequences in the Opisthobranchia
Anthes, Nils
12:10 ­ 12:30 Polyandrous mothers maximize hatchling size in the opisthobranch
Chelidonura sandrana
Sprenger, Dennis; Anthes, Nils ; Michiels, Nico
12:30 ­ 12:50 Sexual selection and sex allocation in Aplysia: Hermaphrodites with
nonreciprocal mating
Yusa, Yoichi
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
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OPEN SESSION: MARINE ECOLOGY
Chair: Mark Davies
14:00 ­ 14:20 Inventoring the marine molluscan fauna of Guanahacabibes Peninsule
iosphere Reserve, Cuba
Caballer, Manuel; Ortea, Jesús; Espinosa, José; Fernández-Garcés, Raúl;
Moro, Leopoldo
14:20 ­ 14:40 Smaragdia viridis (Gastropoda: Neritidae): A selective seagrass feeder
Rueda, José L.; Salas, Carmen; Gofas, Serge
14:40 ­ 15:00 Hard clams and harmful algae: Effects of brown tide on lipid stores in
Mercenaria mercenaria larvae
P
rzeslawski , Rachel ; Padilla, Dianna
15:20 ­ 15:40 The effect of diet on reproduction and energy storage in adult mussels
Mytilus galloprovincialis
Fearman, Jo-Anne; Moltschaniwskyj, Natalie; Bolch, Chris
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/CoffeeReproductive strategies of cultivated and wild oysters,
Crassostrea gigas, in relation to environmental variations in a high-
turbidity intertidal mudflat (Bourgneuf, France)
Dutertre, Mickaël; Beninger, Peter G; Barillé, Laurent
OPEN SESSION: MARINE ECOLOGY
Chair: José Rueda
16:10 ­ 16:30 The evolution of co-operative behaviour: a virtual `experiment' using
high-shore snails as a model system
Davies, Mark S.; Stafford, Richard; Williams, Gray A.
16:30 ­ 16:50 Ecophenotypic variation in the mangrove oyster, Isognomon alatus
(Pterioidea: Bivalvia) associated with a tide microhabitat gradient
Wilk, John
16:50 ­ 17:10 Evolutionary ecological aspects of the geographic variation in the
intertidal gastropod,Monetaria annulus (family Cypraeidae)
Irie, Takahiro
17:10 ­ 17:30 Ecology and population dynamics of Tridacna maxima in Lakshadweep
Archipelago, India
Apte, Deepak; Idrees, Babu
Theologisch Pastoraal Centrum (TPC) ­ Building R
19:00 ­ 21:00 Auction of the American Malacological Society at the Theologisch
Pastoraal Centrum (TPC building R). Contact: Paula Mikkelsen
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THURSDAY 19 JULY

Lecture hall T 148
ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NON-MARINE MOLLUSKS OF THE EASTERN
MEDITERRANEAN
Chair: Aydin Örstan
09:00 ­ 09:20 Morphological and shell quality natural population diversity of the edible
snail (Helix aspersa M.), in southern Hellas
M
alandrakis, . . ; Gogas, A.; Hatziioannou, .; Panagiotaki, P.;
Lazaridou-Dimitriadou, .; Neofitou, C.; Exadactylos, A.
09:20 ­ 09:40 Remote islands of the Aegean. The island of Psara as a case study
Vardinoyannis, Katerina; Georgantis, Panagiotis; Mylonas, Moisis
09:40 ­ 10:00 The Clasuiliidae fauna (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) of the
Lakes Region (Göller Bölgesi) in Türkiye
Gümü , Burçin A kim; Yildirim, M. Zeki
10:00 ­ 10:20 Graecoanatolica (Radoman, 1973) (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae) species of
Turkey
Yildirim, M. Zeki; Koca, Seval; Kebapçi, Ümit
10:20 ­ 10:40 A new land snail zoogeography of Turkey derived from the distribution
ranges of endemic species
Örstan, Aydin
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NON-MARINE MOLLUSKS OF THE EASTERN
MEDITERRANEAN
Chair: Burçin A kim Gümüs
11:10 ­ 11:30 Mapping the biodiversity of land snails in Turkey: A preliminary study of
hotspot analysis
Kebapçi, Ümit; Yildirim, M. Zeki
11:30 ­ 11:50 Can response to water flow explain the distributions of extant and extinct
aquatic Melanopsis spp. in the Jordan valley?
Dussart, G.; Heller, J.; Dussart, A.
11:50 ­ 12:50 General discussion
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
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OPEN SESSION: FRESHWATER MOLLUSCS
Chair: Bert Van Bocxlaer
14:00 ­ 14:20 Freshwater Hydrobiidae of Morocco (Mollusca: Gastropoda):
Inventory and preliminary red list at regional level
Ghamizi, Mohamed
14:20 ­ 14:40 Freshwater snail diversity of Grande Island, Angra dos Reis, Rio de
Janeiro, southeastern Brazil
Santos, Sonia B.; Myiahira, Igor C.; Lacerda, Luiz Eduardo M.
14:40 ­ 15:00 A brief insight into the species-area relationships of spring fen mollusc
communities
Cernohorsky, Nicole; Horsák, Michal
15:00 ­ 15:20 Predicting the effects of a habitat restoration project on population
viability of one threatened and one endangered lotic gastropod
Arrington, Tristan; Richards, David
15:20 ­ 15:40 The impact of urbanisation on freshwater gastropods of L. Jipe, Kenya
Lange, Charles N.; Kristensen, Thomas K.
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
OPEN SESSION: OPISTHOBRANCH SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGENY
Chair: Terrence Gosliner
16:10 ­ 16:30 Phylogeny of Aeolidacea (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia)
Alejandrino, Alvin
16:30 ­ 16:50 Molecular phylogeny as a lens for examining morphology and
biogeography: Examples from the chromodorid nudibranchs
Johnson, Rebecca Fay
16:50 ­ 17:10 Updating the knowledge about the family Bornellidae (Mollusca,
Nudibranchia, Dendronotina): Systematics and preliminary phylogeny
based on morphological characters
Pola, Marta; Gosliner, Terrence M.
17:10 ­ 17:30 Two new species of Phyllodesmium (Ehrenberg 1831) and a discussion of
their placement within the phylogeny
Moore, Elizabeth; Gosliner, Terrence
17:30 ­ 17:50 Biogeographic relationships among benthic opisthobranchs in the Atlantic
Calado, Gonçalo; Coelho, Rita
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Theologisch Pastoraal Centrum (TPC) ­ Building R
19:00 ­ 21:00 Auction of the American Malacological Society at the Theologisch
Pastoraal Centrum (TPC building R). Contact: Paula Mikkelsen
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THURSDAY 19 JULY

Lecture hall U 024
OPEN SESSION: BIVALVE TAXONOMY
Chair: John Taylor
09:00 ­ 09:20 How many unionoid taxa live in the western Palearctic?
Araujo, Rafael; Toledo, Carlos; Nagel, Karlo; Reis, Joaquim; Machordom,
Annie
09:20 ­ 09:40 Coral boring bivalve mollusks of Southeastern Thailand
Valentich-Scott, Paul
09:40 ­ 10:00 Spermatozoan morphologies of some species of marine bivalves: aspects
of taxonomic and ecological relevance
Orlandi Introíni, Gisele; Recco-Pimentel Shirlei Maria
10:00 ­ 10:20 The European bivalve Nucula nucleus (LINNAEUS) and its alleged fossil
record ­ an example for what we really know about the fossil history of
our recent fauna
Janssen, Ronald
10:20 ­ 10:40 A remarkable new genus of sessile, predatory septibranch bivalves
Leal, José H.
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
OPEN SESSION: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF BIVALVES
Chair: Emily Glover
11:10 ­ 11:30 Are morphological and molecular perspectives of anomalodesmatan
phylogeny reconcilable?
Sartori, André F.; Harper, Elizabeth M.
11:30 ­ 11:50 A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Bivalvia: Heterodonta):
new analyses of 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA genes
Taylor, John D.; Williams, Suzanne T.; Glover, Emily A.; Dyal, Patricia
11:50 ­ 12:10 Identification of several members of Hox and paraHox genes in
heteroconch bivalves
Samadi, Leyli; Steiner, Gerhard
12:10 ­ 12:30 Advances in veneroidean systematics - A status report
Bieler, Rüdiger; Mikkelsen, Paula M.; Kappner, Isabella; Rawlings,
Timothy A.; Sartori, André F.; Pintrakoon, Cheewarat; Healy, John M.
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12:30 ­ 12:50 Phylogenetics of the Pectinidae: Sexual reproductive modes and the
evolution of adult dispersal behaviour
Puslednik, Louise; Serb, Jeanne
12:50 ­ 13:10 Molecular taxonomy of sunken-wood associated Bathymodiolinae:
implications for phylogeny at sub-family level
Lorion, Julien; Samadi, Sarah; Boisselier, Marie-Catherine
13:10 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Conservation Committee meeting (open to anyone
interested) in Lecture hall U 024
Program continued in other lecture halls
Theologisch Pastoraal Centrum (TPC) ­ Building R
19:00 ­ 21:00 Auction of the American Malacological Society at the Theologisch
Pastoraal Centrum (TPC building R). Contact: Paula Mikkelsen
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FRIDAY 20 JULY
Lecture hall T 103
MICROMOLLUSCS: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, EXCITING
RESULTS
Chair: Martin Haase
09:00 ­ 09:40 Soft part 3D visualization by computer reconstruction of serial sections
Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
09:40 ­ 10:00 Opisthobranchs go limnic: comparative 3D microanatomy of the marine
interstitial acochlidian Pseudunela and the freshwater Strubellia from
Vanuatu
Neusser, Timea P.; Schrödl, Michael
10:00 ­ 10:20 Sex in the beach: reproduction of the aphallic, interstitial Pontohedyle
milaschewitchii (Acochlidia, Opisthobranchia)
Jörger, Katharina M.; Heß, Martin; Schrödl, Michael
10:20 ­ 10:40 Skeneimorph gastropods in Neomphalida and Vetigastropoda
Kunze, Thomas; Beck, Friedericke; Brückner, Martin; Heß, Martin;
Ruthensteiner, Bernhard; Haszprunar, Gerhard
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
MICROMOLLUSCS: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, EXCITING
RESULTS
Chair: Jackie Van Goethem
11:10 ­ 11:30 The evolution of small body size in Vetigastropoda
Geiger, Daniel L.; Thacker, Christine E.
11:30 ­ 11:50 Diversity of sub-antarctic and antarctic Scissurellidae and Anatomidae
(Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda): Consequences for the region's
biogeography
Zelaya, Diego G.; Geiger, Daniel L
11:50 ­ 12:10 Analysing speciation patterns ­ lessons from rissooidean and hydrocenid
gastropods calling for the integration of methodologies
Haase, Martin
12:10 ­ 12:30 Vertigo geyeri in a lowland Irish fen - asking the right questions and
getting the answers
Moorkens, E.A.
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12:30 ­ 12:50 Micro-molluscs of the Western Ghats: Distribution and threats
Aravind, Neelavar Ananthram; Patil, Rajashekhar K.; Madhyastha,
Neelavar Ananthram
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Students Meeting (open to anyone interested) in Lecture
hall U 024
MICROMOLLUSCS: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, EXCITING
RESULTS
Chair: Evelyn Moorkens
14:00 ­ 14:20 Contrasting distribution patterns of microsnails and macrogastropods of
forest in Tenerife, Canary Islands
Kappes, Heike; Ibáñez, Miguel; Alonso, Maria R.
14:20 ­ 14:40 Sampling micromolluscs on tropical limestone karsts: high
sampling efficiencies and novel biogeographical patterns
Clements, Reuben
14:40 ­ 15:00 Mapping subterranean microsnails: sampling methods and
hydrogeological implications
Prié, Vincent
15:00 ­ 15:40 General discussion
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 103
16:10 ­ 17:10 Unitas General Meeting. Chair: Thierry Backeljau

17:10 ­ 18:10 American Malacological Society General Meeting. Chair: Paula
Mikkelsen
20:00 ­ ????? Congress Dinner at `Grand Café Horta'
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FRIDAY 20 JULY
Lecture hall T 105
MOLLUSCS AS MODELS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: FROM LOCAL
SPECIATION TO GLOBAL RADIATION
Chair: Matthias Glaubrecht
09:00 ­ 09:20 An integrative approach identifies developmental sequence heterochronies
in freshwater basommatophoran snails
Smirthwaite, Jennifer J.; Rundle, Simon D.; Bininda-Emonds, Olaf R.P.;
Spicer, John I.
09:20 ­ 09:40 Developmental constraint and stabilizing selection against left-right
reversal in snails
Asami, Takahiro; Utsuno, Hiroki; Gittenberger, Edmund
09:40 ­ 10:00 Genetic basis of adaptive evolution of left-right reversal under
developmental constraint
Utsuno, Hiroki; Asami, Takahiro
10:00 ­ 10:20 Non-reciprocal hybridization against asymmetric introgression of mtDNA
in Snails
Wiwegweaw, Amporn; Asami, Takahiro
10:20 ­ 10:40 Simultaneous ambivalent reproductive strategy in the sessile gastropod
Vermetus rugulosus Monterosato, 1878 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)
Scuderi, Danilo; Cantone, Grazia
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
OPEN SESSION: GENERAL TAXONOMY AND PHYLOGENY
Chair: Luitfried Salvini-Plawen
11:10 ­ 11:30 What's happening with (species names in) the PhyloCode?
Dayrat, Benoît
11:30 ­ 11:50 When is a species a species? Utilizing the fossil record to investigate the
morphological disparity and taxonomic affinity of extant shell shapes
within the bivalve genus Cucullaea
Buick, Devin P.
11:50 ­ 12:10 Sessile snails, mobile genes: Mitochondrial gene dynamics within the
worm-snail family Vermetidae
Rawlings, Timothy A.; Collins, Timothy M.; Bieler, Rüdiger
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12:10 ­ 12:30 Comparative anatomy of soft-body characters of Caudofoveata with
emphasis on the nervous system
Redl, Emanuel; Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried
12:30 ­ 12:50 Rissoa panhormensis (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) morphotypes analysis vs
species identity
Criscione, Francesco; Scuderi, Danilo; Patti, Francesco Paolo
12:50 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Students Meeting (open to anyone interested) in Lecture
hall U 024
Lecture hall T 103
16:10 ­ 17:10 Unitas General Meeting. Chair: Thierry Backeljau

17:10 ­ 18:10 American Malacological Society General Meeting. Chair: Paula
Mikkelsen
20:00 ­ ????? Congress Dinner at `Grand Café Horta'
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FRIDAY 20 JULY

Lecture hall T 129
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Janet Leonard
09:00 ­ 09:20 A bioassay to identify the active molecule in the dart gland mucus
Chase, Ronald; Darbyson, Emily; Nagle, Gregg
09:20 ­ 09:40 Mating behaviour and spermathecal morphology in populations of the
simultaneously hermaphroditic land snail Helix aspersa
Garefalaki, M.E.; Koemtzopoulos, E.; Kalyva S.; Staikou, A.
09:40 ­ 10:00 Sperm transfer and sperm digestion in the land snail Succinea putris
(Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Succineidae)
Dillen, Lobke; Jordaens, Kurt; Backeljau, Thierry
10:00 ­ 10:20 Sperm storage organ evolution in the carrefour of stylommatophoran
gastropods
Beese, Kathleen; Armbruster, Georg F. J.; Beier, Konstantin; Baur, Bruno
10:20 ­ 10:40 Sperm precedence and lifetime fecundity of Deroceras panormitanum
Reise, Heike; Sauer, Josefine; Matthieu, Christiane; Matton, Sabrina;
Hutchinson, John M.C.
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
SEXUAL SELECTION IN MOLLUSCS
Chair: Nico Michiels
11: 10 ­ 11:30 Evidence for sexual selection in Ariolimax species Stylommatophora:
Arionidae
Leonard, Janet L.; Pearse, John S.; Turner, M.Q.; Diep, P.J.; Breugelmans,
Karin; Backeljau, Thierry
11:30 ­ 11:50 Sex and systematics in the Streptaxidae (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)
Rowson, Ben
11:50 ­ 12:10 Extreme length development of the penis in the terrestrial slug genus
Limax: a case of sexual selection? (Gastropoda: Limacidae)
Falkner, Gerhard Klee, Barbara
12:10 ­ 12:30 Evolution of spermatophore ornamentation in the land snail genus
Thapsia (Stylommatophora, Helicarionoidea): a role for sexual selection?
d
e Winter, Anton. J .
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12:30 ­ 12:50 Threshold dimorphism in ejaculate characteristics associated with
alternative reproductive behaviours in the squid Loligo bleekeri
Yoko, Iwata; Yasunori, Sakurai
12:50 ­ 13:10 Male-male and male-female agonistic behavior of Abdopus aculeatus
Huffard, Christine L.; Caldwell, Roy L.; Boneka, Farnis
13:10 ­ 14:00 Lunch + AMS Students Meeting (open to anyone interested) in Lecture
hall U 024
OPEN SESSION: DEEP SEA MOLLUSCS
Chair: Julien Lorion
14:00 ­ 14:20 Importance of Cretaceous methane-seep associations in Japan for
deciphering the evolution of chemosynthesis-based communities
Kaim, Andrzej; Jenkins, Robert G.; Hikida, Yoshinori; Tanabe, Kazushige
14:20 ­ 14:40 The molluscan fauna of a deep-water coral community at Rockall Bank
(NE Atlantic)
Lavaleye, Marc; Duineveld, Gerard; Schulting, Sanne
14:40 ­ 15:00 Oyster beds in the deep sea
Gofas, Serge; Freiwald, André; López Correa, Matthias; Remia,
Alessandro; Salas, Carmen; Taviani, Marco; Wisshak, Max; Zibrowius,
Helmut
15:00 ­ 15:20 What happens when it gets dark? Biology of deep-sea nudibranch
gastropod species and nocturnal behaviour
Valdés, Ángel
15:20 ­ 15:40 Deep-sea squid behavior: posing in the dark
Bush, Stephanie L.
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 103
16:10 ­ 17:10 Unitas General Meeting. Chair: Thierry Backeljau

17:10 ­ 18:10 American Malacological Society General Meeting. Chair: Paula
Mikkelsen
20:00 ­ ????? Congress Dinner at `Grand Café Horta'
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FRIDAY 20 JULY

Lecture hall T 148
BIODIVERSITY AT CROSSROADS: FRESHWATER BIVALVES FROM MASS
EXTINCTION TO GLOBAL INVASION
Chair: Cristian Altaba
09:00 ­ 09:20 Freshwater bivalve biodiversity: new insights into ecology, biogeography
and conservation
Altaba, Cristian R.
09:20 ­ 10:00 A time to kill and a time to heal: Eradication of the Zebra mussel and
restoration of native mussels to improve water quality in the USA
Neves, Richard J.
10:00 ­ 10:20 Biodiversity and conservation of freshwater molluscs in the Plateau Lakes
of Yunnan Province, SW China
Aldridge, David C.
10:20 ­ 10:40 Identification and genetic characterization of new populations of the
endangered winged mapleleaf, Quadrula fragosa
Hemmingsen; Amanda H.; Serb, Jeanne M.
10:40 ­ 11:10 Tea/Coffee
BIODIVERSITY AT CROSSROADS: FRESHWATER BIVALVES FROM MASS
EXTINCTION TO GLOBAL INVASION
Chair: Ian Killeen
11:10 ­ 11:30 Phylogeographical differentiation of Iberian populations of freshwater
pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) based on microsatellites data
Toledo, Carlos; Machordom, Annie; Araujo, Rafael
11:30 ­ 11:50 Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Nicaraguan freshwater
mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
Roe, Kevin J.; Robinson, Stephen; Lopez de la Fuente, Adolfo
11:50 ­ 12:10 A morphologic, ecologic and molecular analysis of the freshwater mussels
(Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula)
Reis, Joaquim; Machordom, Annie; Araujo, Rafael
12:10 ­ 12:30 Complementarity within a functional group of filter-feeding freshwater
mussels influences stream foodwebs
Vaughn, Caryn C.; Spooner, Daniel E.; Galbraith, Heather S.
12:30 ­ 14:00
Lunch + AMS Students Meeting (open to anyone interested) in Lecture hall U
024
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BIODIVERSITY AT CROSSROADS: FRESHWATER BIVALVES FROM MASS
EXTINCTION TO GLOBAL INVASION
Chair: Richard Neves
14:00 ­ 14:20 The value of analyzing Pisidium faunas
Killeen, Ian
14:20 ­ 14:40 Sphaerium corneum, Sphaerium nucleus (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) and
difficulties with determination and taxonomy of Sphaeriidae
Koínková, Tereza; Juicková, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam
14:40 ­ 15:40 General discussion
15:40 ­ 16:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 103
16:10 ­ 17:10 Unitas General Meeting. Chair: Thierry Backeljau

17:10 ­ 18:10 American Malacological Society General Meeting. Chair: Paula
Mikkelsen
20:00 ­ ????? Congress Dinner at `Grand Café Horta'
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SATURDAY 21 JULY
Lecture hall U 024
IUCN SSC Specialist Group meeting on a Global Freshwater Initiative 21st July 2007
Convened by the IUCN SSC Mollusc Specialist Group - Contact: Mary Seddon
Global Molluscan Assessment Workshop
This is open to all interested in assessing the conservation status of Molluscs using the
IUCN Categories and Criteria and using the IUCN Species Information Service Data
Entry Module. No registration fee will be charged.
09:30 ­ 09:45 Welcome to IUCN Mollusc Specialist Workshop;
an overview of the Global Mollusc Assessment proposal.
Mary Seddon & Annabelle Cuttelod (IUCN Mediterranean Office)
09:45 ­ 11:00 An introduction to using the IUCN Categories and Criteria (version 3.1)
for Mollusca.
Mary Seddon (based on IUCM training programme)
11:00 ­ 11:15 Coffee/Tea
11:15 ­ 12:00 Questions and Answers session about using SIS DEM module & IUCN
Categories and Criteria.
12:00 ­ 13:00 Open discussion forum about a establishing a Global Assessment
programme for Mollusca.
13:00 ­ 14:00 Lunch
14:00 ­ 14:15 The African project: lessons learned and overview of results.
14:15 ­ 14:30 North American Asssessment project progress.
14:30 ­ 17:00 Potential breakout groups:
Breakout group 1: North African Interim Assessments: closed session for
current participants.
Breakout group 2: Mediterranean Assessment; open session for those
interested in contributing data and species assessments for a Mediterranean
Assessment.
Breakout group 3: Freshwater Assessments: open session working
through examples of how to make a Red List assessment.
Breakout group 4: Rest of African Assessment; open session for those
interested.
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POSTERS
In alphabetical order of the first author. Symposium specific posters and related `open
session' posters will be displayed per symposium.
Land snails microcosm preserved: Good news from Mayotte, Comoro Islands
Abdou, Ahmed; Bouchet, Philippe; Muratov, Igor (POSTER 88)
Allometric growth of Mytella charruana (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) based on information-
theory approach
Abrahão, Jolnnye R.; MacCord, Fábio S.; Yokoyama, Leonardo Q.; Amaral, A. Cecília
Z. (POSTER 56)
Are there still rivers suitable for threatened unionid bivalves in Poland (Central Europe)?
Abraszewska, Anna (POSTER 42)
Evolution and biogeography of ancient freshwater pulmonate gastropods:
the limpet family Acroloxidae (Hygrophila)
Albrecht, Christian; Shirokaya, Alena A.; Prozorova, Larisa, A.; Ellis, Bonnie K.; Wilke,
Thomas (POSTER 149B)
The subfamilies Margaritinae and Calliostomatinae from South Shetlands Island to
Bellinghausen Sea: species diversity and unknown identities
Aldea, Cristian; Zelaya, Diego G.; Troncoso, Jesús S. (POSTER 106)
Biodiversity and conservation of freshwater molluscs in the Plateau Lakes of Yunnan
Province, SW China
Aldridge, David C. (POSTER 107B)
Fossil vesicomyid bivalves from the North Pacific region
Amano, Kazutaka; Kiel, Steffen (POSTER 120)
Ultrastructural study of the spermatogenesis of a protandric neogastropod, Coralliophila
meyendorffii (Muricidae, Coralliophilinae)
Amor, Maria Jose; Richter, Alexandra; Montserrat, Ramón; Dufort, Mercedes (POSTER
101)
Effects of temperature on metabolism and growth in Protothaca thaca (Mollusca:
Veneridae)
Avalos, Cecilia; Vargas, Cristina; Riascos, José M.; Heilmayer, Olaf (POSTER 52A)
Ongoing renovations in the Department of Malacology at the Museum of Comparative
Zoology (Harvard University)
Baldinger, Adam J. (POSTER 190)
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3D microanatomy of Omalogyra atomus (Gastropoda, Omalogyridae)
Bäumler, Natalie; Zernecke, Rebekka; Haszprunar, Gerhard; Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
(POSTER 20)
Testing the glacial refugia hypothesis in spring snails (Bythinella spp.)
Benke, Mandy; Brändle, Martin; Albrecht, Christian; Wilke, Thomas (POSTER 127)
Spatio-temporal and biomass dynamics of Corbicula fluminea, an invasive mussel in the
Hungarian Danube section
Bódis, Erika; Hornung, Erzsébet; Nosek, János; Oertel, Nándor (POSTER 43)
Anatomy of the genital system of Eubranchus vittatus (Alder & Hancock, 1842)
(Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Eubranchidae)
Botana, Alba G.; Urgorri, Victoriano; Señarís, Marcos P.; Díaz-Agras, Guillermo; Corral,
Eva; Moreira, Juan (POSTER 183)
Atlas and red list of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of Castilla La Mancha
(Spain): Distribution and conservation
Bragado, M. Dolores; Aparicio, M. Teresa; Araujo, Rafael (POSTER 107A)
Keyhole limpets of the genus Fissurella (Archaeogastropoda: Vetigastropoda) in Chilean
coasts
Bretos, Marta; Huaquín, Laura; Osorio, Cecilia; Bahamondes-Rojas, Ingrid (POSTER
108)
Molecular phylogeny of the terrestrial slug genus Arion (Gastropoda, Pulmonata,
Arionidae)
Breugelmans, Karin; Jordaens, Kurt; Van Houtte, Natalie; Pinceel, Jan; Backeljau,
Thierry (POSTER 6)
Distribution of terrestrial land snails in Nepal
Budha, Prem B.; Backeljau, Thierry, Naggs Fred (POSTER 89)
Using the PAM-technology as a tool to investigate the symbiosis between
,,solarpowered" Nudibranchia (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) and Zooxanthellae
(Dinophyceae)
Burghardt, Ingo (POSTER 128)
Discrimination of end-Cretaceous anodontine Unionoidea from North Dakota:
How many taxa make sense?
Burton-Kelly, Matthew; Hartman, Joseph H. (POSTER 153)
Molecular and morphological taxonomy of gastropods from south-east Pacific seamounts
Castelin, Magalie; Samadi, Sarah; Boisselier, Marie-Catherine; Lozouet, Pierre (POSTER
109)
Gastropods of Davraz Mountain
Ceylan, Salih; Kebapçi, Ümit; Yildirim, M. Zeki; Gümü , Burçin A kim (POSTER 19)
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (California, USA):
Upgrade of research and collection facilities for the 21st Century
Chaney, Henry W.; Carpenter, Shannon; Geiger, Daniel L.; Hochberg, F. G.; Sadeghian,
Patricia; Valentich-Scott, Paul (POSTER 191)
Unravelling a taxonomic tangle and a morphological mystery: A molecular phylogeny of
the Rapaninae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae)
Claremont, Martine; Reid, David G.; Williams, Suzanne T. (POSTER 129)
Reproductive traits of Crepidula aculeata (Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) from Argentina
Cledón, Maximiliano; Ocampo, Emiliano; Farias, Nahuel; Penchaszadeh, Pablo
(POSTER 57)
Molecular phylogenetics of the land snail genus Anguispira (Pulmonata: Discidae)
Clutts, Stephanie A.; Anderson, Frank E. (POSTER 164)
Phylogeography and evolutionary origins of Florida's native Apple snail, Pomacea
paludosa
Collins, Timothy M.; Rawlings, Timothy A.; Choquette, Duane M. (POSTER 173)
Patchy distribution of the (TTAGGG)n telomeric repeat motif in Mollusca
Colomba, Mariastella; Libertini, Angelo; Gregorini, Armando; Vitturi, Roberto
(POSTER 150)
Chromosome numbers and chromosomal evolution in the land snail genus Arion
(Gastropoda, Pulmonata)
Colomba, Mariastella; Backeljau, Thierry; Gregorini, Armando; Jordaens, Kurt
(POSTER 174)
Mollusca of the subfamily Emarginulinae (Gastropoda, Prosobrachia, Fissurellidae) from
the french campaign Seamount II
Corral, Eva; Urgorri, Victoriano; Botana, Alba G.; Señarís, Marcos P.; Díaz-Agras,
Guillermo; Candás, María (POSTER 58)
A conservational approach over Azorean terrestrial molluscs
Cunha, Regina; Rodrigues, Pedro; Martins, António M. de Frias (POSTER 90)
Freshwater molluscs threat assessments in Africa
Cuttelod, Annabelle; Seddon, Mary; Darwall, Will; Smith, Kevin (POSTER 110)
Genetic and morphological variability in fluviatile species of Tylomelania
(Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae) from Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia
Dames, Claudia; Glaubrecht, Matthias; von Rintelen, Thomas (POSTER 130)
Spanish lower cretaceous freshwater molluscs
Delvene, Graciela; Araujo, Rafael; Bermúdez-Rochas, David D. (POSTER 131)

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Natural hstory of Doto koenneckeri Lemche, 1976 (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia,
Dendronotacea) in the Ría of Ferrol (NW Iberian Peninsula)
Díaz-Agras, Guillermo; Urgorri, Victoriano; Corral, Eva; Botana, Alba G.; Señarís,
Marcos P. & Candás, María (POSTER 59)
Effects of isolation and body size on the mating behaviour of the hermaphroditic land
snail Succinea putris (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Succineidae)
Dillen, Lobke; Jordaens, Kurt; Backeljau, Thierry (POSTER 5)
Invasive freshwater species Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) (Bivalvia: Unionidae):
a colonizer of the channels of Midzyodrze area (Western Pomerania Region, N-W
Poland)
Domagala, Józef, Labcka, Anna Maria, Migdalska, Blandyna, Pilecka-Rapacz,
Malgorzata (POSTER 78)
The relationship between age and shell length in freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera
margaritifera) from Sweden
Dunca, Elena; Söderberg, Håkan; Mutvei, Harry; Norgrann, Oskar (POSTER 188)
Anatomy, distribution, and ecology of the slug Arion alpinus Pollonera, 1887
(Gastropoda: Arionidae)
Dvoák, Libor; Backeljau, Thierry; Reischütz, Peter L.; Horsák, Michal; Breugelmans,
Karin; Jordaens, Kurt (POSTER 8)
Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of Iberus species based on mtDNA sequences
Elejalde, M. Arantzazu ; Madeira, María José ; Muñoz, Benito ; Arrébola, Jose Ramón ;
Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J. (POSTER 132)
Inherited flesh colour in edible snails
Elmslie, Leslie J. (POSTER 85)

Seasonal foraging activity during spring and neap tide in Patella ferruginea
Espinosa, Free; Rivera-Ingraham, Georgina; García-Gómez, Jose Carlos (POSTER 52B)
First case of the radular-less representatives of the subfamily Crassispirinae (Turridae)
with critical reassessment of the taxonomic status of the subfamily Zemaciinae (Turridae)
Fedosov, Alexander (POSTER 99)
Molecular Morphology of 18S rDNA of Bivalvia
Feistel, Sussane; Haszprunar, Gerhard (POSTER 176)
Phylogeny and morphological variability in land snails: the Sicilian Marmorana
(Pulmonata, Helicidae)
Fiorentino, Viviana; Salomone, Nicola; Manganelli, Guiseppe; Giusti, Folco (POSTER
133)

Land snail conservation in the Gabonese rainforest: Single large or single small?
Fontaine, Benoît; Gargominy, Olivier (POSTER 111)
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A challenge to the relationships of "Omphalotropis" (Caenogastropoda: Assimineidae)
Fukuda, Hiroshi; Ponder, Winston F. (POSTER 154)
Interference competition in the suspension feeding Dendropoma maxima: optimal
foraging or an unresolved prisoner's dilemma?
Gagern, Antonius; Michiels, Nico K.; Anthes, Nils (POSTER 60)
Documenting the past: The Tomlin Archive
Gallichan, Jennifer (POSTER 192)
New species of proneomenidae (Mollusca: Solenogastres) from Western Antarctica
García-Álvarez, Oscar; Zamarro, María; Gil-Mansilla, Esther; Urgorri, Victoriano
(POSTER 75)
Using an electron microscopy shell morphometry in identifying the Weichselian Pupilla
muscorum and Pupilla triplicata species from the loess series of Vojvodina (Serbia)
Gaudenyi, Tivadar; Jovanovic, Mladjen (POSTER 29)
Extreme variability in the radula of Anatomidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)
Geiger, Daniel L.; Sasaki, Takenori (POSTER 21)
Giustia n.gen. (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) a new genus of the groundwater micromollusks
of Morocco
Ghamizi, Mohamed; Bodon, Marco (POSTER 22)
New genus of Acanthomeniidae (Mollusca: Solenogastres) from the Abyssal Angola
Basin
Gil-Mansilla, Esther; Zamarro, María; García-Álvarez, Oscar; Urgorri, Victoriano
(POSTER 74)
Marine bivalves shell shape stabilization and reproduction
Gil, Guacira Maria; Thomé, José Willibaldo; Gomes, Suzete Rodrigues; Troncoso, Jesús
Souza (POSTER 187)

Sperm morphology in three marine gastropods from South Western Atlantic Ocean
(Caenogastropoda): Systematic importance
Giménez, J.; Arrighetti, F.; Teso, S.; Zabala, S.; Hermida,G.;Penchaszadeh, P. (POSTER
98)
An improved method for the identification of areas of endemism using species co-
occurrences
Giokas, Sinos; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (POSTER 13)
Micro-CT--3D analysis of molluscan anatomy
Golding, Rosemary E.; Jones, Allan S. (POSTER 23)

The Gondwanan origin of Veronicellidae (Gastropoda, Soleolifera): evidences from a
cladistic morphological analysis
Gomes, Suzete R.; Mendes, Inga L.V.; Thomé, José W. (POSTER 155)
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Molecular phylogeny of the Helicodontidae and Trissexodontidae genera and their
taxonomic position within Helicoidea
Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J. ; Elejalde, M. Arantzazu ; Madeira, María José ; Martínez-
Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón ; Muñoz, Benito ; Puente, Ana Isabel (POSTER 135)
Genetic diversity of an exploited population of banded Murex, Hexaplex
(Trunculariopsis) trunculus: Implications for stock enhancement and conservation
González-Tizón, Ana; Fernández-Moreno, Mercedes; Vasconcelos, Paulo; Gaspar,
Miguel B; Moreno-Escalante, Óscar; Martínez-Lage, Andrés (POSTER 136)
Evolution of the molluscan assemblage on a seagrass meadow (Zostera marina) affected
by trawling activity
González, Alexandre R.; Maestre, Manuel J.; Ruiz, Aurora; Gordillo, Ismael; Sánchez,
Emilio; García-Gómez, José C. (POSTER 61)
Taxonomic and systematic study of the Families Helicinidae and Ceresidae (Mollusca:
Gastropoda: Neritopsina) and the Genus Drymaeus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata:
Bulimulidae) in three zones of the Reserve Amazonic in Peru
Guevara Muñoz, Samira (POSTER 165)
Pupilloidean snails of Göller Bölgesi (Lakes Region) Turkey
Gülboy, Hatice; Kebapçi, Ümit; Yildirim, M. Zeki (POSTER 14)

Land snails from a hidden beauty: Afrodisyas (Karacasu: Aydin) in Türkiye
Gümü , Burçin A kim; Yildirim, M. Zeki (POSTER 15)

Dynamic gastropods: morphological and genetic differentiation of the land snail Arianta
arbustorum in an Alpine massif
Haase, Martin; Misof, Bernhard (POSTER 137)
Molecular phylogeny and morphological evolution of pholadoidean boring bivalves
(Bivalvia: Myoida)
Haga, Takuma; Kase, Tomoki (POSTER 177)
The Cerion land snails of Long Island, Bahamas: New insights into the relationships and
origins of a dynamic fauna
Harasewych, Jerry; Goodfriend, G.A.; Gould, S. J. (POSTER 166)
Interpreting the last molluscan Unionoidea from the Cretaceous of North Dakota
Hartman, Joseph H.; Burton-Kelly, Matthew; Sweet, Arthur R. (POSTER 44)
Studies on the control of Arion lusitanicus Mabille in Norway
Haukeland, Solveig; Andersen, Arild (POSTER 10)
Caught in the act: Insights into the sex life of Lanistes ovum (Gastopoda: Ampullariidae)
Heiler, Katharina C. M.; Schultheiß, Roland; Geertz, Thies; Albrecht, Christian
(POSTER 1)
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Tag-team approach: Mitochondrial DNA and morphological assessment of Vietnamese
freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae)
Holford, Mande; Do, Van Tu; Ho, Thanh Hai; Köhler, Frank (POSTER 112)

Notes on the distribution of the genus Pagodulina (Gastropoda, Orculidae) in the Eastern
Mediterranean region: first record on the island of Rhodes (Greece)
Hölling, Michael (POSTER 16)
British Marine Bivalves - A web-based taxonomic tool for bivalves from the intertidal to
5000m
Holmes, Anna M.; Oliver, P. Graham; Killeen, Ian J.; Turner, James (POSTER 178)
Can freshwater mussel density be predicted by complex hydraulic parameters?
Hornbach, Daniel J.; Hove, Mark C.; MacGregor, Kelly R. (POSTER 45)
Taxonomy of the genus Trochulus (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae) in the Czech Republic
Hrabakova, Magda; Jurickova, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (POSTER 113)
Assessment of Dosidicus gigas sperm longevity using fluorescence microscopy
Huffard, Christine; Buck, Kurt; Robison, Bruce (POSTER 2)
The planorbid genera Biomphalaria and Bulinus: Status and future.
Jelnes, Jens Erik Thejll (POSTER 151)
Examining changes in morphological disparity along a latitudinal gradient in the
Neogastropoda
Johnson, Nicholas A. (POSTER 102)
Development of an initial conservation assessment for North American freshwater
gastropods
Johnson, Paul D.; Bogan, Arthur E.; Strong Ellen E.; Brown, Kenneth M.; Corderio, Jay
E. (POSTER 114)
Associations between shell strength, shell morphology and heavy metals in the land snail
Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda, Helicidae)
Jordaens, Kurt, Vandecasteele, Bart; Backeljau, Thierry (POSTER 32)
Molluscs in human impacted habitats - summary of present records in the Czech
Republic
Jurickova, Lucie (POSTER 83)
The laboratory tests on some chemicals in reducing slug grazing
Kaluski, Tomasz; Kozlowski, Jan; Jaskulska, Monika (POSTER 9)
Analysis of the 3' untranslated regions of -tubulin and S-crystallin mRNA and
identification of CPEB in dark- and light-adapted octopus retinas
Kelly, Shannon; Robles, Laura (POSTER 189)
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Morphological and molecular characterization of the Roman snail Helix pomatia with
data on the phylogeny of the genus Helix (Pulmonata, Helicidae)
Ketmaier, Valerio; Fiorentino, Viviana; Tiedemann, Ralph; Manganelli, Giuseppe;
Giusti, Folco (POSTER 167)
Distribution and ecology of Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in coastal waters of
Hordaland, Norway
Keuning, Rozemarijn; Schander, Christoffer; Kongsrud, Jon; Willassen, Endre (POSTER
62)
Species boundaries in Limax (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): extreme colour variations
in and between species
Klee, Barbara; Heim, René; Hyman, Isabel T.; Haszprunar, Gerhard (POSTER 168)
The fate of received sperm in the genital tract of Lymnaea stagnalis
Koene, Joris M., Montagne-Wajer, Kora; ter Maat, Andries (POSTER 3)
Karyotypes of land operculate snails genus Pterocyclus and Rhiostoma (Prosobranchia:
Cyclophoridae) from Thailand and Malaysia
Kongim; Bangon; Tongkerd, Piyoros; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Yasin, Zulfigar; Tan, Aileen;
Panha, Somsak (POSTER 117)
Early ontogeny and micro-ornamentation of Nicaniella and Pressastarte (Bivalvia:
Astartinae) from the Jurassic of the Southern Baltic
Koppka, Jens; Malchus, Nikolaus (POSTER 152)
The anatomy and relationships of Troschelia (Buccinidae, Neogastropoda): evidence of
polyphyly for the Buccinidae?
Kosyan, Alisa; Modica, Maria Vittoria; Oliverio, Marco (POSTER 100)
Vesicomyidae (Bivalves): trends of morphological adaptations
Krylova, Elena; Sahling, Heiko (POSTER 138)
The microanatomy of Bathyxylophila excelsa Marshall, 1988, and Ventsia tricarinata
Warén & Bouchet, 1993, two skeneimorph vetigastropods from Pacific deep sea habitats
(Vetigastropoda)
Kunze, Thomas; Heß, Martin; Haszprunar, Gerhard (POSTER 24)

B-type esterases in the snail Xeropicta derbentina as potential biomarkers of pesticide
exposure: in vitro inhibition and reactivation
Laguerre, Christel; Sanchez-Hernandez, Juan C.; Köhler, Heinz-R.; Capowiez, Yvan;
Rault, Magali; Mazzia, Christophe (POSTER 33)
Xeropicta derbentina as a sentinel species for evaluating ecotoxicological effects of
pesticide treatments?
Laguerre, Christel; Lazzara, Raimondo; Köhler, Heinz-R.; Triebskorn, Rita; Sanchez-
Hernandez, Juan C.; Capowiez, Yvan; Rault, Magali; Mazzia, Christophe (POSTER 34)
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The freshwater thiarid Tarebia granifera as tramp: Molecular systematics and
reproductive biology of a tropical invader
Lamers, Rebecca; Stein, André; von Rintelen, Thomas; Glaubrecht, Matthias (POSTER
118)
Spatial differences and temporal variations of antioxidant defences in an intertidal
population of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis
Letendre, Julie; Olivier, Stéphanie; Poret, Agnès; Leboulenger, François; Durand, Fabrice
(POSTER 53)
Phylogenetic and structural aspects of chiton hemocyanins
Lieb, Bernhard; Streit, Klaus; Möller, Vanessa; Eernisse, Douglas J. (POSTER 139)
Biogeography of land snail of Bornean tropical mountains
Liew, Thor-Seng; Schilthuizen, Menno; Bin Lakim, Maklarin; Jais, Jamili (POSTER 96)
Ultrastructural and cytochemical study of the oesophagus of Bulla striata
(Opisthobranchia)
Lobo-da-Cunha, Alexandre; Calado, Gonçalo (POSTER 163)
Preliminary data on molecular diversity of the "Napaeus pruninus complex" in São
Miguel Island
Lourenço, Paula; Backeljau, Thierry; Martins, António M. de Frias (POSTER 169)
A review of the genus Satondella Bandel, 1998 (Gastropoda, Scissurellidae)
Luque, Ángel A.; Geiger, Daniel L.; Rolán, Emilio (POSTER 25)
Effects of a thermal effluent on the rocky intertidal molluscan assemblages
Maestre, Manuel J.; González, Alexandre R.; Espinosa, Free; Ruiz, Aurora; Gordillo,
Ismael; García-Gómez, Jose C. (POSTER 54)
Growth of Donax vittatus in the north-west coast of Portugal.
Biological data for the management of a new fishery
Maia, Francisco; Pimenta, Joana; Gonçalves, Catarina (POSTER 63)

Diversity and distribution of Haminoea (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea) in the Atlantic and
eastern Pacific oceans
Malaquias, Manuel António E.; Reid, David G. (POSTER 119)
Cell and tissue biology of the mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) digestive gland: a novel view of
its form and function
Marigómez, Ionan (POSTER 162)
Cytogenetics of bivalves: a review with some comments on phylogeny
Martínez-Lage, Andrés; Francisco, Marta; Vierna, Joaquín; Da Rocha, Bibiana; Seoane,
David; González-Tizón, Ana (POSTER 140)
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Revision of the taxonomy of the Ibero-Balearic populations of Tudorella
(Caenogastropoda, Pomatiidae) by molecular and morphological analyses
Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Elejalde, Miren Arantzazu; Madeira, María José; Gómez-
Moliner, Benjamín (POSTER 141)
Accompanying fauna of Bulgarica cana (Held)
Marzec, Magdalena; Pokryszko, Beata M.; Cameron, Robert A.D. (POSTER 91)

Habitat ­related shell variation of two Baikal endemic gastropods
Maximova N.; Sitnikova T.; Fazalova V. (POSTER 142)
Bivalves of the Florida Keys ­ The monograph
Mikkelsen, Paula M.; Bieler, Rüdiger (POSTER 115)
First steps in the ecological and phylogenetic study ­ land snail Monacha cartusiana (O.
F. Müller, 1774) in the area of Central Europe
Mikovcova, Alena; Jurickova, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (POSTER 82)
The Zebra mussel as a bioindicator for endocrine disruption? A study on the annual
gametogenic cycle and oestrogen levels in Dreissena polymorpha
Monsinjon, Tiphaine; Knigge, Thomas; Alain, Damien; Hill, Elizabeth M.; Minier,
Christophe (POSTER 35)
Reproductive cycle of the giant clam Panopea generosa at Magdalena Bay, South Baja
California, Mexico
Morales Gómez, Ana Adalia; Salgado Ugarte, Isaías H.; Uría Galicia, Esther; Gluyas
Millán, M. Georgina; Masso Roja, José Antonio; Gómez Márquez, José Luis (POSTER
64)
Temporal variation of bivalve assemblages in sandy subtidal sediments of the Ensenada
de Baiona (Galicia, NW Spain)
Moreira, Juan; Troncoso, Jesús S. (POSTER 65)
Simultaneous polyphenism and cryptic species in an intertidal limpet from New Zealand
Nakano, Tomoyuki; Spencer, Hamish G. (POSTER 170)
3-dimensional microanatomy and sperm ultrastructure of the arctic interstitial acochlidian
gastropod Asperspina murmanica (Kudinskaya & Minichev, 1978)
Neusser, Timea P.; Martynov, Alexander; Jörger, Katharina; Schrödl, Michael (POSTER
26)
The allocation of energy for reproductive success in Cornu aspersum before and after
hibernation
Nicolai, Annegret; Fournier, Sandra²; Briand, Valérie³; Charrier, Maryvonne (POSTER
84)
Diversity and altitudinal patterns of land snails in two mountains of Atlantic Rain Forest
at Grande Island, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil
Nunes, Gleisse K.M.; Santos, Sonia B. (POSTER 93)
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Effect on burying deep of Mesodesma mactroides by artificial siphon nipping and
different nutritional conditions
Núñez, Jesús; Porrini, Leonardo; Penchaszadeh, Pablo E.; Cledón, Maximiliano
(POSTER 66)
Habitat selection of limpet (Patella ssp.) species in the tidal zone at the Adriatic Sea
Nyilas, István; Simon, Viktor (POSTER 55)
Species delineation and genetic variation in the genus Hiatella (Bivalvia, Heterodonta)
Oberlechner, Miriam; Steiner, Gerhard (POSTER 179)
Histopathology and bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Cu & Pb) in the giant land snail
Archachatina marginata (Swainson)
Otitoloju, Adebayo A.; Ajikobi, D. A.; Egonmwan, Rosemary I. (POSTER 36)
First record of a species belonging to the genus Dendropoma (Mollusca,
Caenogastropoda, Vermetidae) from the rocky subtidal zone of Peninsula Mejillones,
northern Chile
Pacheco, Aldo; Laudien, Jürgen; Riascos, Jose (POSTER 67)
Micro-scale assessment of land snails on coarse woody debris in central European beech
forests
Páll-Gergely, Barna; Sólymos, Péter (POSTER 92)
Molecular systematics and proposed taxonomy in Ariolimax Stylommatophora:
Arionidae Pearse, John S.; Leonard, Janet L.; Breugelmans, Karin; Backeljau, Thierry
(POSTER 171)
Pronounced karyological divergence of the North American congeners Sphaerium
rhomboideum and S. occidentale (Bivalvia, Veneroida, Sphaeriidae)
Petkevicit÷, Romualda; Stanevicit÷, Grazina; Stunz÷nas, Virmantas; Lee, Taehwan; Ó
Foighil, Dairmaid (POSTER 185)
Adverse effects of the Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) on the Swollen river mussel
(Unio tumidus) in a riverine habitat
Piechocki, Andrzej (POSTER 46)
Molecular characteristics of the part of Na,K-ATPase alpha subunit isolated
from Helix pomatia L.
Pienkowska, Joanna; Lesicki, Andrzej (POSTER 175)
Preliminary study of DNA sequence variation in the terrestrial snail Rumina decollata
Prévot, Vanya; Jordaens, Kurt; Backeljau, Thierry (POSTER 172)
Effect of piperaceae extracts on Schistosomiasis vector Biomphalaria glabrata (Say,
1818)
Rapado, L.N.; Kato, M.J.; Kawano, T. (POSTER 11)
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Fresh water mollusks of the Azores: a reappraisal
Raposeiro, Pedro; Costa, Ana C. ; Martins, António M. Frias (POSTER 79)

Microalgae as feed for nursery phase cultivation in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis)
Raso, Sayam; Wijffels, R.H.; Smaal, A. C. (POSTER 68)
Preliminary data on a new species of Kruppomenia
(Simrothiellidae, Cavibelonia, Solenogastres) from Norwegian waters
Redl, Emanuel; Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried; Schander, Christoffer (POSTER 76)
Data on the cology and phylogeny of Atlantic Ovulidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Reijnen, Bastian T.; Gittenberger, E. (POSTER 116)
Unio tumidiformis Castro 1885: A highly endangered endemic species (Bivalvia:
Unionidae) from the south-western Iberian Peninsula
Reis, Joaquim; Araujo, Rafael (POSTER 47)
Diversity, distribution patterns, and biogeographic affinities of the Helicinidae on New
Caledonia (Gastropoda: Neritopsina)
Richling, Ira (POSTER 94)
A comparative anatomical and ultrastructural study of the gland of Leiblein of two
muricids species with different diets
Richter, Alexandra; Amor, Maria Jose; Ramón, Montserrat; Dufort, Mercedes (POSTER
104)
Soil mollusc response to different fertilized strategies for grass production in Galiza (NW
Spain)
Rodríguez, Teresa; Moreira, Mariana; López-Mosquera, Elvira; Carral, Emilio (POSTER
87)
Three new species of minute heterobranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Omalogyridae
and Rissoellidae) from Namibia
Rolán, Emilio; Luque, Ángel A.; Peñas, Anselmo (POSTER 186)
Streptaxomorph shells: an evaluation and possible explanation
Rowson, Ben (POSTER 161)
Jujubinus striatus (L, 1758) (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from a deep Zostera marina bed in
southern Spain (Alboran Sea): notes on its ecology and biology
Rueda, José L.; Marina, Pablo; Urra, Javier; Salas, Carmen (POSTER 69)
Genital system anatomy and development of Ovatella myosotis (Gastropoda, Ellobiidae)
by 3D computer visualization
Ruthensteiner, Bernhard; Stocker, Bettina (POSTER 156)
Cytogenetic damage in gill cells of blue mussels from different areas of the Baltic Sea
Rybakovas, Aleksandras; Barsien÷, Janina (POSTER 37)
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Databases on scaphopod molluscs
Sahlmann, Bernd (POSTER 121)
Anatomy of Eulepetopsis vitrea McLean, 1990 (Patellogastropoda: Neolepetopsidae)
Sasaki, Takenori; Warén, Anders (POSTER 157)
Molluscan fauna of shallow hydrothermal vents on the Knipowitch ridge
Schander, Christoffer; Warén, Anders; Todt, Christiane; Pedersen, Rolf Birger (POSTER
122)
Challenging the biogeographical scenario of diversification of the Ampullariidae
(Caenogastropoda) using molecular methods
Schultheiß, Roland; Geertz, Thies; Heiler, Katharina; Albrecht, Christian (POSTER 143)
A new species of nudibranch (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Dorididae) of the Ría of Ferrol
(NW Iberian Peninsula, Spain)
Señarís, Marcos P.; Urgorri, Victoriano; Díaz-Agras, Guillermo; Corral, Eva; Botana,
Alba G.; Moreira, Juan (POSTER 184)
Molecular diversity and phylogenetic relationships of the family Viviparidae
(Gastropoda, Mollusca) with special emphasis on the Bellamya radiations in the Rift
Valley Lakes of Africa
Sengupta, Mita E.; Kristensen, Thomas K.; Madsen, Henry; Jørgensen, Aslak (POSTER
144)
Diversification of the genus Theodoxus (Neritidae) in the Black Sea Basin
Sereda, Sergej V.; Albrecht, Christian; Anistratenko, Vitaliy V.; Wilke, Thomas
(POSTER 145)
Exceptional preservation of molluscs in the buckhorn asphalt quarry
Seuß, B. Nützel, A. ; Schulbert, C. (POSTER 27)
Shape variability of Mactra isabelleana (Heterodonta: Bivalvia) from two different
habitats off Buenos Aires province coast
Signorelli, Javier H.; Pastorino, Guido (POSTER 181)
Mollusc collections in the National Museum of Ireland: Céad míle fáilte!
Sigwart, Julia D.; Leonard, Leona M. (POSTER 193)
Species diversification in ancient lakes: patterns of morphological and ecological
differentiation in Tylomelania (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from Lake Poso, Sulawesi,
Indonesia
Simonis, Jutta; von Rintelen, Kristina; Marwoto, Ristiyanti; von Rintelen, Thomas;
Glaubrecht, Matthias (POSTER 134)
Ecological character displacement among endemic Baikal gastropods
Sitnikova, Tatiana Ya; Köhler, Frank; Riedel, Frank (POSTER 80)
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Endemic molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia) in hypogean habitats in Slovenia
Slapnik, Rajko (POSTER 123)
Geographical variation in the richness and composition of forest snail faunas in central
and southeast Europe
Sólymos, Péter; Eriss, Zoltán Péter; Steffek, Jozef (POSTER 95)
First identification of mitochondrial M genome in males of Anodonta anatina and Unio
pictorum (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Unionidae)
Soroka, Marianna (POSTER 146)
3D-anatomy of the rhipidoglossate heterobranchs Hyalogyrina depressa Hasegawa, 1997
and Xenoskenea pellucida Monterosato, 1874 (Gastropoda, Ectobranchia)
Speimann, E.; Heß, M.; Haszprunar, G. (POSTER 28)
The neoplastic disease in Macoma balthica (L.) ­ an impact on condition of the Baltic
clam population from the Gulf of Gdask (Baltic Sea)
Stachnik, Magdalena; Wolowicz, Maciej (POSTER 38)
The Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Victor Sterki
Sturm, Charles; Pearce, Timothy (POSTER 81)
Life history and population dynamics of Vestia gulo (E.A. Bielz, 1859) (Pulmonata:
Clausiliidae)
Sulikowska-Drozd, Anna (POSTER 86)
Toxic effects of water samples of Tietê River in adults and embryos of Biomphalaria
glabrata (Say, 1818)
Tallarico, L.F.; Grazzefe, V.; Okazaki, K.; Kawano, T.; Nakano, E. (POSTER 39)
Revision of Paludinellassiminea (Caenogastropoda: Assimineidae) ­ preliminary report
Tatara, Yuki; Fukuda, Hiroshi (POSTER 158)
Coralliophilinae associated with deep-water coral banks in the Mediterranean Sea
Taviani, M.; Oliverio, M. ; Angeletti, L.; Mifsud, C. (POSTER 105)

Morphology, ecology and species: diversification patterns in an ancient lake species flock
of Tylomelania (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from Lake Mahalona, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Tenner, Silke; Glaubrecht, Matthias; von Rintelen, Thomas (POSTER 147)
Biodiversity of aplacophoran mollusks in the coastal area near Bergen, Norway
Todt, Christiane Schander, Christoffer (POSTER 124)
Margaritifera marocana Pallary, 1918, a distinct species of Margaritifera still survives in
Morocco
Toledo, Carlos; Van Damme, Dirk; Araujo, Rafael; Machordom, Annie (POSTER 48)
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Interstitial Mollusca of the amphioxus sand of the Galician Coasts (NW Iberian
Peninsula)
Urgorri, Victoriano; García-Álvarez, Oscar; Corral, Eva; Díaz-Agras, Guillermo; Candás,
María; Señarís, Marcos P.; Botana, Alba G. (POSTER 70)
Biogeographical analysis of a molluscan hotspot in the Alboran Sea
Urra, Javier; Gofas, Serge; Marina, Pablo; Rueda, José L. (POSTER 71)
Valve ultrastructure of suborder Ichnochitonina (Polyplacophora) from the South West
Atlantic
Urteaga, Diego; Pastorino, Guido (POSTER 159)
New inventory and conservation methods of the threatened freshwater bivalve Unio
crassus
Valovirta, Ilmari (POSTER 49)
On the invasion of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Africa and the evolution
of the human bloodfluke Schistosoma mansoni: the palaeontological evidence
Van Damme, Dirk; Van Bocxlaer, Bert (POSTER 30)
Genetic variation in the periwinkle Littorina littorea along the Western and Eastern
Scheldt estuary
Van den Broeck, Heidi; De Wolf, Hans; Backeljau, Thierry; Blust, Ronny (POSTER 40)
Molluscs of the infra- and circalittoral of the Azores: The story of a field-trip of an
undergraduate Malacology class
Velosa, Ana; Lopes, Tiago; Fiedler, Maria; Arruda, Rafael; Souza, Maria; Furtado,
Cláudia; Ponte, Alexandra; Moura, João; Martins, António M. de Frias (POSTER 72)
Mating behaviour across the contact zone in pairs of sibling slug species
Visser, Stefanie; Reise, Heike; Hutchinson, John M.C. (POSTER 4)
Snails as bio-indicators - Imposex of the netted whelk Nassarius reticulatus in Brittany
along a transect from a point source
Vogt, Christian, Schmitt, Claudia, Wirzinger, Gertraud, Scheider, Jessica; Oehlmann,
Jörg (POSTER 41)
Pleistocene refugia in Patagonia:
Evidence from the freshwater snail genus Chilina (Gastropoda: Chilinidae)
von Oheimb, Parm Viktor; Riedel, Frank; Wilke, Thomas (POSTER 148)

Pupilla pratensis (Clessin, 1871) a distinct species in the form group of Pupilla
muscorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Pupillidae)
von Proschwitz, Ted; Schander, Christoffer; Jueg, Uwe; Thorkildsen, Solveig (POSTER
126)
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Does ecological specialization lead to speciation? ­ a case study on Tylomelania
sarasinorum from the Malili lake system (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
von Rintelen, Kristina; Glaubrecht, Matthias; von Rintelen, Thomas (POSTER 149A)
Preliminary rDNA sequence data on arionid phylogeny
Vrijders, Hilde; Breugelmans, Karin; Jordaens, Kurt; Backeljau, Thierry (POSTER 7)
Preliminary studies on the occurrence of the Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea (O.F.
Müller, 1774) (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae) in River Odra (Poland)
Wawrzyniak-Wydrowska, Brygida (POSTER 50)
Genetic variability in the Mediterranean interstitial gastropod Pontohedyle
milaschewitchii (Opisthobranchia, Acochlidiomorpha)
Werth, Sigrid M.; Steiner, Gerhard (POSTER 180)
Extinction and immigration in the wake of climatic deterioration: Marine molluscan
diversity in the Pliocene-Quaternary in the southern North Sea Basin
Wesselingh, Frank P.; Janse, Anton; Meijer, Tom (POSTER 31)
Mollusc identifications cards for Central Europe ("miniposters") - a tool for
determination, field work and education
Wiese, Vollrath; Richling, Ira (POSTER 160)
Judging a mangrove oyster by its cover: Differentiating extremely similar allopatric
Isognomon species (Pterioidea: Bivalvia) using geometric morphometric analysis of
conchological features
Wilk, John (POSTER 182)
New molluscan names introduced by César-Marie-Felix Ancey
Wood, Harriet; Gallichan, Jennifer (POSTER 194)
Land snails diversity patterns in Uganda
Wronski, Torsten; Hausdorf, Bernhard (POSTER 125)
Effect of a novel molluscicide on the snail Oncomelania hupensis
Xu, Xingjian; Yuan, Yi; Wei, Fenghua; Tu, Zuwu; Cao, Mumin; He, Hui; Fan,
Hongping; Li, Guiling; Zhao, Yunbing; Liu, Min; Dussart,G. (POSTER 12)
Malacofauna of Akda (Keçiborlu, Isparta, Turkey) and its environs
Yildirim, M. Zeki; Kebapçi, Ümit (POSTER 18)

Biodiversity loss in the Lakes Region of Turkey, with Special emphasis on the
malacofauna
Yildirim, M. Zeki; Kebapçi, Ümit; Koca, Seval; Ceylan, Salih (POSTER 17)
Population dynamics, growth and secondary production of Nassarius vibex (Say, 1825)
Yokoyama, Leonardo Q.; Amaral, A. Cecília Z. (POSTER 73)
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Data about two species of Solenogastres of the NW Iberian Peninsula
Zamarro, María; Gil-Mansilla, Esther; Urgorri, Victoriano; García-Álvarez, Oscar
(POSTER 77)
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