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assisted in the collection of snails for this study. I am also grateful to 

 three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and advice. 



This paper is from a thesis presented to the faculty of Marshall 

 University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of 

 Science degree. 



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Accepted 9 July 1982 



