These may be of interest:

Gorbushin A.M. 1997. Field evidence for trematode – induced gigantism in
Hydrobia spp. (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 77, 785-
800.

Elodie Chapuis. 2009. Correlation between parasite prevalence and adult size
in a trematode-mollusc system: evidence for evolutionary gigantism in the
freshwater snail Galba truncatula? J. Mollus. Stud.  75:391-396


Aydin Orstan

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:18:22 +0200, Moshe Erlendur Okon
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Shalom to all,
>I am looking for literature on size abnormality in gastropods (especially
in Cypraeidae) and on reasons for this, other than normal distribution on
the Gaussian curve. Reasons could be genetic, environmental, disease or
parasite induced etc.
>Sincerely, Moshe Erlendur
>

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