>Hi everyone,
>
>Does anyone know of any type of Volutes which originate as free swimming
>veligers?
The living species are all believed to hatch as crawling juveniles;
however, some fossil species are thought to retain the ancestral veliger.
This includes several species of Athleta s.l. and Voluticorbis in the
Paleogene.
Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug