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RECENTLY, Continental workers have published papers dealing with various aspects of the parthenogenetic mollusc Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (Smith). Boettger1,2 discusses the cause of the keel on the shell and the systematics of the snail; Bondesen and Kaiser3 deal mostly with its ecology in Denmark. A preliminary summary is given here of observations I have carried out on this mollusc during the past six years.
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WARWICK, T. Strains in the Mollusc Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (Smith). Nature 169, 551–552 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169551a0
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