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D'Asaro, Charles N. 1986. Laboratory Spawning, Egg Membranes, and Egg Capsules of 14 Small Marine Prosobranchs from Florida and Bimini, Bahamas. EPA/600/J-86/336. Am. Malacol. Bull. 4(2):185-199. (ERL,GB X533). (Avail. from NTIS, Springfield, VA: PB87-178729)

Specific substrata or locations used for oviposition and external and internal structure of egg capsules produced by small prosobranchs from seagrass beds and coastal splash pools are described. Included are Tricolia affinis affinis (C.B. Adams, 1850), T. thalassicola Robertson, 1958, T. bella (M. Smith, 1937), Puperita pupa (Linne, 1767), Smaragdia viridis viridemaris Maury, 1917, Littorina mespillum (Muhlfeld, 1824), Alvania auberiana (Orbigny, 1842), Rissoina catesbyana (Orbigny, 1842), R. bryerea (Montagu, 1803), Zebrina browniana (Orbigny, 1842), Rissoella caribaea Rehder, 1943, Caecum nitidum Stimpson, 1851, Marginella aureocincta Stearns, 1872, and Granulina ovuliformis (Orbigny, 1841).

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