Table of Contents

Origins of Mollusca and evolution of the major groups
1: G. Haszprunar: The Mollusca: coelomate turbellarians or mesenchymate annelids?
2: L.v. Salvini-Plawen & G. Steiner: Synapomorphies and plesiomorphies in higher classifcation of Mollusca
3: A.H. Scheltema: Phylogenetic position of Sipuncula, Mollusca, and the progenetic Aplacophora
4: D.I. Ivanov: Origin of Aculifera and problems of monophyly of higher taxa in molluscs
5: D.R. Lindberg & W.F. Ponder: An evolutionary tree for the Mollusca: branches or roots?
6: B. Runnegar: Early evolution of the Mollusca: the fossil record
7: M.P. Morse & P.D. Reynolds: Ultrastructure of the heart-kidney complex in smaller classes supports symplesiomorphy of molluscan coelomic characters
8: J.M. Healy: Molluscan sperm ultrastructure: correlation with taxonomic units within the Gastropoda, Cephalopoda and Bivalvia
9: S. Reindle & G. Haszprunar: Shell pores (Caeca, aesthetes) of Mollusca: a case of polyphyly
10: J.A. Crame: Evolution of high-latitude molluscan faunas
11: W.F. Ponder & D.R. Lindberg: Gastropod phylogeny - challenge for the 90's
12: J.A.M. van den Biggelaar: The significance of the early cleavage pattern for the reconstruction of gastropod phylogeny
13: P.J. Wagner: Patterns of morphologic diversification during the initial radiation of the "Archaeogastropoda"
14: G. Angerer & G. Haszprunar: Anatomy and affinities of lepetid limpets (Patellogastropoda=Docoglossa)
16: S.I. Monari, M.A. Conti and J. Szabo: Evolutionary systematics of Jurassica Trochoidea: the families Colloniidae and Proconulidae
17: S. Crossland, D. Coates, J. Grahame & P.J. Mill: The Littorina saxatilis species complex - interpretation using random amplified polymorphic DNAs
18: E.A. Kay: Evolutionary radiations in the cypraeidae
19: Y.I. Kantor: Phylogeny and relationships of Neogastropoda
20: K.R. Jensen: The Diaphanidae as a possible sister group of the Sacoglossa (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)
21: K. Schaefer: Development of the anal gland in Haminea navicula (Da Costa, 1778) (Opisthobranchia, Bullomorpha) and homologous structures within gastropods
22: M. Oliverio: Contrasting developmental strategies and speciation in N.E. Atlantic prosobranchs: A preliminary analysis
23: S. Tillier, M. Masselot and A. Tiller: Phylogenetic relationships of the pulmonate gastropods with a discussion on tempo and age of the stylommatphoran radiation, analyzed from partial 28s rRNA sequences
24: A.M. de Frias Martins: Relationships within the Ellobiidae
25: E. Gittenberger & M. Schilthuizen: Parallelism in the origin of the G-type clausilial apparatus (Gastropoda, Polmonata, Clausiliidae)
26: M. Schilthuizen & E. Gittenberger: Allozyme variation in some cretan Albinaria (Gastropoda; Clausiliidae): paraphyletic species as a natural phenomena
27: S.J. Preston, D. Roberts & W.I. Montgomery: Crab predation as a selective agent on shelled gastropods: a case study of Calliostoma Zizyphinum (Prosobranchia: Trochidae)
28: G. Steiner: Suprageneric phylogeny in Scaphopoda
29: B. Morton: The Bivalvia
30: J.C.W. Cope: The early evolution of the Bivalvia
31: S. Cragg: The phylogenetic significance of some anatomical features of bivalve larvae

Reviews

`The overwhelming message of this volume is that all is not "business as usual" in malacology. The transition is well under way to a more analytical, hypothesis-driven ... practice of molluscan systematics.'
B. Roth, The Veliger, Vol. 39, No. 3, 1996