Mark Sutton

Jan 8, 2025 | nature.com | Mark Sutton |Julia D. Sigwart |Pierre Gueriau |David Siveter

AbstractMollusca is the second most species-rich animal phylum, but the pathways of early molluscan evolution have long been controversial1,2,3,4,5. Modern faunas retain only a fraction of the past forms in this hyperdiverse and long-lived group. Recent analyses6,7,8 have consistently recovered a fundamental split into two sister clades, Conchifera (including gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods) and Aculifera9, comprising Polyplacophora (‘chitons’) and Aplacophora.

Nov 21, 2024 | mdpi.com | Robert Rees |Torikul Islam |Julia Drewer |Mark Sutton

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