Frank Peter W
Department of Biology, University of Oregon, 97403, Eugene, Oregon.
Oecologia. 1969 Feb;2(2):232-250. doi: 10.1007/BF00379161.
Information on growth, gained from individually marked animals, is provided for at least one species of each of the families Trochidae, Neritidae, Strombidae, Cypraeidae, Thaisidae, Fasciolariidae, Vasidae and Conidae. Except in the cowries and strombs, which have determinate growth, shell growth is adequately described by a von Bertalanffy curve only to a certain point. Beyond this, growth continues slowly and at a rate that is independent of size. Size frequency distributions are characteristically negatively skew, mainly because early growth is fast relative to the total life span. Longevities seem to indicate that turnover rates are comparable to those of Prosobranch mollusks from colder seas.
从个体标记动物获得的生长信息，针对马蹄螺科、蜒螺科、凤凰螺科、宝贝科、骨螺科、旋螺科、瓦螺科和芋螺科中的至少一个物种给出。除了具有确定生长的宝贝和凤凰螺外，贝壳生长仅在一定程度上能用冯·贝塔朗菲曲线充分描述。在此之后，生长继续缓慢进行，且生长速率与大小无关。大小频率分布通常呈负偏态，主要是因为早期生长相对于总寿命而言较快。寿命似乎表明更替率与来自较寒冷海域的前鳃亚纲软体动物相当。
