Mollusk freaks: new teratological cases on marine mollusks from the southeastern Pacific Ocean | Zendy

Felipe I. Torres | Zendy; Christian M. Ibáñez | Zendy; Víctor Sanhueza | Zendy; M. Cecilia PardoGandarillas | Zendy

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Mollusk freaks: new teratological cases on marine mollusks from the southeastern Pacific Ocean

Author(s) -

Felipe I. Torres,

Christian M. Ibáñez,

Víctor Sanhueza,

M. Cecilia PardoGandarillas

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

latin american journal of aquatic research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0718-560X

DOI - 10.3856/vol46-issue4-fulltext-5

Subject(s) - pacific ocean , oceanography , fishery , biology , geography , geology

The present study provides new documented cases of abnormalities on chitons (hypomerism and coalescence of shell plates), in addition to four new cases on keyhole limpets (closed apical opening), and one new teratologic case on internal organs in octopuses (missing gill). We assess the frequency of these abnormalities and discuss about its possible environmental, mechanic and genetic causes. Several of these findings represent the first of these cases reported in South Pacific Ocean.

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