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Full Texts of Publications on Land Snails (pdf files)
Örstan, A. 1999.
Land Snails of Black Hill Regional Park, Montgomery County, Maryland. Maryland
Naturalist, 43(3-4):20-24.
Örstan, A. 2000. Island Hopping for
Land Snails off Istanbul. American Conchologist, vol. 28(4):4-6.
Örstan, A. 2001. A Preliminary Survey
of Albinaria Populations Around Kusadasi Bay, Turkey. Triton, No.
4:42-44.
Örstan, A. & F. Welter-Schultes.
2002. A dextral specimen of Albinaria cretensis (Pulmonata:
Clausiliidae). Triton, No. 5, pp. 25-28.
Örstan, A. 2003. The first
record of Discus rotundatus from Turkey. Triton, No. 7, p. 27.
Örstan, A. 2003. Calculation
of the coefficient of variation from the diameter measurements of snail shells.
Triton, No. 8, pp. 21-32.
Örstan, A. 2004. Cemeteries as
refuges for native land snails in Istanbul, Turkey. Tentacle, No. 12,
pp. 11-12.
Örstan, A. 2004. Possible
human-assisted dispersal of Levantina spiriplana (Pulmonata: Helicidae)
in western Turkey. Triton, No. 9, pp. 27-28.
Örstan,
A. & Yıldırım, M.Z. 2004. Borlumastus, a new land snail
genus from Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae). Basteria, 68:125-129.
Örstan, A. 2005. The status
of Pomatias elegans in Istanbul, Turkey. Tentacle, No. 13, pp.
8-9.
Örstan, A. 2005. Aestivation survival
in some Turkish Albinaria species. Spirula, No. 342, pp. 3-4.
Örstan,
A. 2005. Shell repair in Pomatia elegans (Caenogastropoda:
Pomatiasidae). Triton, No. 11, pp. 26-27.
Örstan,
A., Yıldırım, M. Z., Gümüş, B. A. & Welter-Schultes, F.
W. 2005. The land snails of the Bodrum peninsula, Turkey. Mitteilungen der
Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 73/74:1-15.
Örstan, A. Pearce,
T. & Welter-Schultes, F. 2006. The land snail diversity of a threatened limestone district
near Istanbul, Turkey. Animal
Biodiversity and Conservation, 28: 181-188.
Örstan, A. 2006. Could deer overabundance impact terrestrial
mollusks? Tentacle #14:20-21.
Örstan, A. 2006.
Natural diet of Oxyloma retusa (Pulmonata: Succineidae). Triton, No.
13, pp. 36-37.
Örstan,
A. 2006. Antipredatory function of the
retractibility of Batillaria minima into its shell. Triton,
No. 14, pp. 1-2.
Örstan, A
& Yıldırım, M. Z. 2006. The holotype of sprattia
sowerbyana aksoylari Yildirim, 1997 (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae). Triton,
No. 14, p. 37.
Pearce, T. &
Örstan, A. 2006. Terrestrial gastropoda,
Chapter 22 in C. Sturm, T. A. Pearce & A. Valdés, editors, The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study,
Collection, and Preservation.
Örstan, A. 2006. Rearing terrestrial gastropoda, Chapter
23 in C. Sturm, T. A. Pearce & A. Valdés, editors, The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation.
Örstan, A. 2007. Contact with an alien. Tentacle #15:14-15.
Örstan, A. 2007. A new record of Cecilioides acicula from North America (Pulmonata: Ferussaciidae).
Triton, No. 15, p. 38.
Örstan, A. 2007. Conchological and anatomical characteristics
of Xerocrassa cretica from Turkey
(Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Triton, No. 15, pp. 39-40.
Örstan, A,
Yıldırım, M. Z. , Ceylan, S., Pearce, T.A. &
Welter-Schultes, F. (2007). A new species of Idyla (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) from Aydın Mountains, Turkey
and the associated land snail fauna. Journal
of Conchology, 39:329-334.
Örstan
A. & Welter-Schultes, F. 2007. Reproductive isolation between two Albinaria species in a contact zone
(Gastropoda: Clauisliidae). Schriften zur
Malakozoologie, 23:33-38.
Summaries of Other
Publications on Land Snails
Örstan, A. 1999. Drill holes in
land snail shells from western Turkey. Schriften zur Malakozoologie,
13:31-36.
Neubert, E., A. Örstan & F.
Welter-Schultes. 2000. The land snails of the area between Kas and Demre,
southwestern Turkey, with special reference to Albinaria (Gastropoda, Pulmonata,
Clausiliidae). Basteria, 64:105-123.
Örstan, A. 2001. A Revision of Mastus
carneolus (Mousson 1863) from Istanbul, Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata:
Enidae). Schriften zur Malakozoologie, 17:65-70.
Örstan, A. & M.Z.
Yıldırım. 2003. Conchological and genitalic comparisons of Jaminia
loewii populations in Turkey (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae). Zoology in
the Middle East, 28:67-76.
Örstan, A.
2003. The rediscovery of Zonites algirus in İstanbul, Turkey
(Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zoology in the Middle East, 29:75-78.
More Stuff!
Expedition Memoirs
Bodrum
Peninsula Land Snail Survey - 5-17 August 2002
Malacologists
at the Peak: Land Snail Surveys of Dilek Peninsula, Aydın Mountains and
Spil Mountain, Turkey - 28 June - 6 July 2004
Other
Stuff!!
ARCHAEO+MALACOLOGY GROUP NEWSLETTERS
A
GLOSSARY OF HISTORICAL PLACE NAMES IN TURKEY
Papers on Bdelloid Rotifers
Örstan, A. 1998.
Microhabitats and dispersal routes of bdelloid rotifers. Scientiae Naturae,
1:27-36. [3.4 MB pdf file]
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