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2 unusual facts about Calyptraeidae


Dollo's law of irreversibility

Nevertheless, a few genera in the slipper snail family (Calyptraeidae) may have changed their developmental timing (heterochrony) and regained a coiled shell from a limpet-like shell.

Garnotia

Garnotia is also an obsolete genus level name for some species of calyptraeid gastropods (Calyptraeidae) which are currently considered to belong to the genus Crepidula.


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