Polymorphic shell banding in the dog‐whelk, Nucella lapillus (Mollusca)
The shell of the Common dog‐whelk (Nucella lapillus (L.)) is white and unbanded at most places around the British Isles. However, high frequencies of banding occur on the Buchan coast, around Anglesey and the Menai Straits, on the Cower Peninsula, around the Devon–Somerset border in the Bristol Chan...
Published in: | Journal of Zoology |
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Wiley
1983
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