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Systematics/Phylogeny
March 07th, 2011
Using transmission electron microscopy, sperm morphology is being investigated for a suite of veneroidean taxa for their potential valuein phylogenetic analyses.
March 07th, 2011
Despite their remarkable ecological and economic importance, there is a suprising scarcity of anatomical data on species of Veneridae, with only about 50 species having at least some detailed information published on soft-part morphology.
March 07th, 2011
The largest Recent family of Bivalvia, the marine Veneridae, comprises one of the least understood and most poorly defined molluscan taxa, despite including some of the most economically important and abundant bivalves. A review of previous phylogenetic analyses including the superfamily Veneroidea (Veneridae, Petricolidae, Glauconomidae, Turtoniidae, Neoleptonidae) and within Veneridae shows minimal taxon sampling leading to weak conclusions and few supported synapomorphies.
March 07th, 2011
The bivalve genus Isognomon is the focus of this Ph.D. disseration project examining the evolution of developmental pathways and ecophenotypic responses.
March 07th, 2011
This dissertation project focused on the evolution of diversity in the bivalve superfamily Pterioidea, which includes the commerciallly important pearl oysters.
March 07th, 2011
The marine bivalve subfamily Venerinae is an economically important group, nevertheless, its taxonomy and classification has been controversial for a long time.
February 25th, 2011
A specimen from 1974 that has been sitting in our herbarium collections is finally published as a new species.
February 01st, 2011
Rarely the focus of a fossil expedition, specimens of extinct birds are occasionally collected as surprising and spectacular discoveries on trips aiming for fossil mammals or fossil reptiles.
January 31st, 2011
The Camiguin Hanging Parrot (Loriculus camiguinsis) is a new species described in a 2006 article in Fieldiana written by J. G. Tello, J. F. Degner, J. M. Bates and D. E. Willard.
January 12th, 2011
Explore the Division of Fishes collection localities.