Spicy food for the egg-cowries: the evolution of corallivory in the Ovulidae (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea)

E Nocella, SS Zvonareva, G Fassio, D Pica… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Host-parasite associations provide very useful models to study adaptive
processes. We investigated the interaction between carnivorous marine gastropods, the …

From coral reefs into the abyss: the evolution of corallivory in the Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda, Muricidae)

E Nocella, G Fassio, D Zuccon, N Puillandre… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we delved into the interaction between corallivorous marine gastropods, the
muricid Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859, and their cnidarian food targets. Coralliophilinae is a …

Whelks, rock-snails, and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

V Russini, G Fassio, E Nocella, R Houart… - The European …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The worldwide distributed neogastropod family Muricidae comprises more than 1800 extant
species of whelks, rock-shells, murex-shells, drill-shells, and coral-shells. Despite several …

The polymorphic top-shell puzzle: iterative taxonomy of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae), in the Mediterranean Sea

G Chiappa, G Fassio, C Smriglio… - Journal of Molluscan …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Calliostoma Swainson, 1840, as currently conceived, is the most species-rich genus of the
order Trochida, with over 350 recognized species worldwide. The shell variability in these …

Coriocella and the Worms: First Record of Scale-Worm Asterophilia cf. culcitae Ectosymbiotic on a Mollusc

G Fassio - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Species of the mollusc genus Coriocella (Velutinidae) produce defensive biocompounds,
making them potentially valuable hosts for other marine invertebrates. However, so far, only …

The Dancing Marsenia: The First Record of a Swimming Velutinid Mollusc

G Fassio, J Bas - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Among gastropods, the ability to swim has developed independently several times, mostly
among Heterobranchia. Only a few species of Caenogastropoda are known to have …

Selected Wildlife Trematodes

MG Bolek, JT Detwiler, HA Stigge - Digenetic Trematodes, 2024 - Springer
The trematodes are a species-rich group of parasites, with some estimates suggesting that
there are more than 24,000 species. However, the complexities associated with their …