Snail Nassarius

Transfer of copper from wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) occurs in estuarine algae (Ulva, Enteromorpha), American oysters, mud snails (Nassarius obsoletus), and fiddler crabs (IJca spp. Weis and Weis 1992). Algae, barnacles, andmussels from CCA-treated lumber show elevated concentrations of copper when compared to reference sites. The epibiotic estuarine community that... 

Mud snail, Nassarius obsoletus 5-6 Induced male characteristics in females in 64 days 3... 

Smith, B.S. 1981b. Tributyltin compounds induce male characteristics on female mud snails Nassarius obsoletus = Ilyanassa obsoleta. Jour. Appl. Toxicol. 1 141-144. 

Smith, B.S., Sexuality in the American mud snail, Nassarius obsoletus Say, Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 39, 378, 1971. 

Santos M, Wagner M, Wu B, Scheider J, Oehlmann J, Cadore S, Becker J (2009) Biomonitoring of metal contamination in marine prosobranch snail (nassarius reticulates) by imaging laser ablation inductively coupled plasmas mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Talanta 80 428—433. doi 10.1016/j.talanta.2009.06.080... 

Sandflat snails (Nassarius sp.) leap away from starfish, their predator, and scallops (Pecten sp.) swim away in a peculiar manner from secretions of starfish. 

Fig. 7. Responses of the mud snail Nassarius obsoletus to four stimuli crushed Nassarius obsoletus, Modiolus demissus, Littorina littorea, and blank (no stimulus). Dots indicate individual snails. Each circle (radius 35 cm) shows the superimposed sum of four replicate trials. The snails were counted at —10, 0, 2, 5,10 and 20 min. Stimulus introduction was at time 0 min, in the center of the circle (from Atema and Burd, 1975).

Atema, J., 1976. Sublethal effects of petroleum fractions on the behavior of the lobster, Homarus americanus, and the mud snail, Nassarius obsoletus. In M. Wiley (Editor), Estuarine Processes, 1. Uses, Stresses and Adaptation to the Estuary. Academic Press, London, pp. 302—312. 

Atema, J. and Burd, G.D., 1975. A field study of chemotactic responses of the marine mud snail, Nassarius obsoletus. J. Chem. Ecol., 1 243—251. 

Mud snail, Nassarius obsoletus 189, 819 Oyster drill Ocenebra spp., 856 Thais spp., 189, 820 Physa spp., 54, 182, 598, 663 Pomacea spp., 189, 597 Slipper limpet, Crepidulafomicata, 452 Whelk... 

Yellow pigments extracted from snails usually consist of carotenes and/or xanthophyils. These pigments have been demonstrated in the marine snail Nassarius... 

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