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- October 2009
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(12 October) Another testing of the Coolidge effect in simultaneous hermaphrodites results: there is no Coolidge effect in Biomphalaria glabrata (pictured).
New gastropod taxa described in 2009:
- November 2009
- (online in 26 October 2009) 11 new species of Everettia from Borneo.
- August 2009
- (24 August) New genus Crikey (family Camaenidae) with only one species, Crikey steveirwini from Australia, named in memory of wildlife expert Steve Irwin.
- (18 August) Pseudunela espiritusanta from Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu lives in brackish water while other two species in the same genus are marine.
- (18 August) Three new species of Phyllodesmium from the Philippines
- (6 August) Echinolittorina placida from the Western Atlantic, and two other subgenera Lineolittorina and Amerolittorina, are assigned to the genus Echinolittorina.
- July 2009
- (29 July) New deep sea gastropods from the Skeneinae, (Turbinidae): Adeuomphalus xerente, Palazzia pankakare; from Chilodontidae: Calliotropis pataxo, Mirachelus urueuauau; from Tornidae: Ponderinella xacriaba and from Aclididae: Aclis kanela.
- (16 July) New species of Onchidorididae from Kamchatka: Adalaria slavi, Adalaria olgae, Onchidoris macropompa and Onchimira cavifera in the new genus Onchimira.
- May 2009
- (8 May) The second microscopic fossil species in the genus Depressizona: Depressizona axiosculpta was described from Tonga. Depressizoninae was upgraded to family level as Depressizonidae.
- April 2009
- Rissoina harryleei (Rissoidae) from Bermuda.
- March 2009
- (23 March) Boonea scymnocelata (Odostomiinae).
- (10 March) Astyris frumarkernorum (Columbellidae).
New gastropod taxa described in 2008:
- Helix goderdziana, the largest species in the genus Helix
- Powelliphanta augusta, a rare endemic snail from New Zealand
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The ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, a presumably introduced species found in Wales
- Hokkaidoconchidae, common name hokkaidoconchids, an extinct family of deepwater sea snails
- Gulella systemanaturae, which was named in honor of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Linnaeus’ book Systema Naturae
- Albinaria linnei, one of over a hundred different species within the genus Albinaria
- Opisthostoma vermiculum is unique among gastropods because the coiling of its shell displays four completely different axes of rotation!
