GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND HETEROCHRONY IN TWO SPECIES OF COWRIES (GENUS CYPRAEA)

Geographic variation in the marine, Indo‐Pacific cowry, Cypraea caputserpentis, involves clinal variations that parallel the ontogenetic development of adult shell characteristics. Cypraea caputdraconis, a closely related species endemic to Easter Island and Sala y Gómez, is morphologically similar to juvenile C. caputserpentis. Using multivariate measures of size and shape, I examine these patterns as a possible outcome of heterochrony, or changes in the timing of developmental events in ontogeny.

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