… Here, we explore morphological disparity of shell architecture in gastropods from lower
bathyal and abyssal environments of the western North Atlantic as a new dimension of deep‐sea …

… oceans, we also examine Recent gastropod shell assemblages from a shallow Caribbean
… abyssal environments in the northwest Atlantic (McClain 2004, 2005; McClain et al. 2004). …

… -west Atlantic gastropods in this study is right skewed as opposed to the log-normal relationships
reported for terrestrial arthropods (Siemann et al., 1996, 1999) and coastal gastropods (…

… to maximum size in deep-sea turrid gastropods collected from the North Atlantic. Relationships
were … We controlled the analysis for depth because size in deep-sea gastropods varies …

… and others (Rex et al. 1988; McClain et al. 2004). Shell form in deep-sea gastropods may
also be affected by the availability and dissolution rates of CaCO3 (McClain et al. 2004). The …

… a single taxonomic class (Gastropoda) both within and … gastropods live in an extremely
food-limited environment with little organic input (McClain et al., 2006), terrestrial gastropods …

… We measured shell size for gastropods (81 species, 3423 individuals) collected in the …
Quantile regression shows that maximum size attained among all gastropods increases with depth …

… Over 97% of the gastropods in this study have a maximum shell length below 12.2 mm (2.5
natural log units), placing them in the left part of the distribution in Fig. 3. Abyssal …

… Future studies are needed to test for the generality of the patterns we report here for
gastropods. Our results indicate that for gastropods, with decreasing productivity, hermaphroditism …

… Here, we examine the depth ranges of deep‐sea gastropods and bivalves in the … gastropod
assemblage is dominated by species with energetically efficient shell architectures (McClain …