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 * October 2009


 * Biomphalaria glabrata.jpg(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 "Augustus".jpgPowelliphanta augusta, a rare endemic snail from New Zealand


 * Ghost Slug adult.jpg ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, a presumably introduced species found in Wales


 * Hokkaidoconcha occidentalis.jpgidoconchidae, 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!