Duration of emergence increases with tidal height on rocky shores therefore, emergence adaptations in intertidal species such as littorine and other prosobranch gastropods have been considered correlated with zonation patterns; temperature tolerance, desiccation...
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McMahon, R. F. (1990). Thermal tolerance, evaporative water loss, air-water oxygen consumption and zonation of intertidal prosobranchs: a new synthesis. In Progress in Littorinid and Muricid Biology (pp. 241–260). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0563-4_20
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