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Description: photo of maturation eggs of Pomacea paludosa. Freshly laid eggs in a thick mucus matrix have salmon color (left). Mature eggs in calcified shells are in pinkish white color (right). Scale Bar: 5 cm.
Title: Pomacea paludosa eggs maturation
Credit: Figure 11 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/97/figure/F11 from: Daniel J Jackson, Gert Wörheide and Bernard M Degnan: The identity, distribution, and impacts of non-native apple snails in the continental United States. - BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:97doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-97.
Author: Timothy A Rawlings, Kenneth A Hayes, Robert H Cowie and Timothy M Collins
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