Daniela A. Mardones-Toledo

TL;DR: The circulation pattern of the progeny appears well-suited for both cleaning them and directing them posteriorly to an area where there is more oxygen and food than in the palp region, which could explain the poor energy balance previously documented for brooding females of this species.

TL;DR: In the context of feeding, intertidal individuals of C. fornicata performed at least as well as subtidal conspecifics, resulting in a population whose adults were as large as those found subtidally, suggesting that C.Fornicata has had a long interaction with the environmental heterogeneity associated with intert tidal life.

TL;DR: The solid substrate to which calyptraeid gastropods attach clearly plays an important role in their feeding biology, although the precise role remains to be explored.

TL;DR: The capacity for embryonic recognition in brooding oysters, Ostrea chilensis, and the ability to clear the pallial cavity of dead embryos were studied, which revealed that females frequently rejected some of their own veligers together with the dead larvae.

TL;DR: It is found that when egg capsules of C. peruviana were exposed to lower ambient salinities, the substantial entry of water correlated well with high percentages of hatching, particularly for egg capsules containing advanced veligers, suggesting that an osmotic mechanism may be involved in the hatching process of this species.