Meet the editors

Sajal Ray received MSc and MPhil degrees in Zoology and Environmental Science from Calcutta University, and a PhD from Jadavpur University. His thesis reports immunotoxicity of pesticide in an economically important snail of India. As an awardee of Fogarty Visiting Fellowship, Dr. Ray carried out his postdoctoral research in cardiac pathology at the National Institutes of Health, USA. His research interest is immunological responses of molluscs,

sponges, crabs and earthworms exposed to pollutants. His team is engaged in understanding the evolutionary mechanism of immunity in phylogeny. He presented his research in conferences including the World Congress of Malacology in Washington DC. He is Professor of Zoology at Calcutta University and has been teaching Zoology for nearly thirty years at the postgraduate level.

Dr. Genaro Diarte-Plata is a professor and researcher with appointment at the candidate level at the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) Mexico. He is a biologist in Aquaculture at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mexico. He holds a master's in Natural Resources and Environment from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN CIIDIR-Sinaloa), Mexico. He has been a profes-

sor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, since 2006. He is also a researcher for the Sinaloa System of Researchers and Technologists (SSIT-INAPI Sinaloa). He has a doctorate in Marine and Coastal Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Mexico. Dr. Diarte-Plata conducts investigations in mariculture, and culture and ecology of molluscs and crustaceans. As a professor-researcher within the IPN CIIDIR-Sinaloa he has participated in 48 research projects, given 11 seminars and 260 presentations at international and national conferences, and has written 5 book chapters and 19 indexed articles. He teaches Descriptive and Multivariate Statistics at the bachelor's level, and Aquaculture at the postgraduate level. He directs 15 undergraduate theses, 5 master's degrees, and 2 doctorates from various universities. He is also an arbitrator in the revision of manuscripts sent to international journals (ISI-JCR).

Dr. Ruth Escamilla-Montes holds a doctorate in Marine and Coastal Sciences with a specialty in Aquaculture. Belonging to Assistant Technologist of the Sinaloa System of Researchers and Technologists. Here areas of study include cultivation and ecology of molluscs and crustaceans. Over the last five years she has focused on the isolation and characterization of lactic acid bacteria, yeasts, and bacilli with probiotic potential and pathogenic bacteria, such

as *Vibrio parahaemolyticus*, and their effects on the growth, survival, and expression of genes of the immune system and stress of marine organisms. She has participated in 11 research projects as well as presentations at national and international conferences. She has authored 4 book chapters and 28 articles in ISI Thomson–JCR international journals. She is also an arbitrator in the revision of manuscripts sent to international journals (ISI-JCR).

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Emilie Boissin*

*and Cheikh Tidiane Ba*

*Cellana sandwicensis* (Pease, 1861) *by Hua Thai Nhan and Harry Ako*

*and Avilés-Quevedo María Araceli*

**Section 2**

Indoor Hibernation of *Helix aspersa* Juveniles

in the Amelioration of Cisplatin Induced Toxicity

*by Jayaprakash Bindhu and Das Arunava*

*Delia Berceanu-Văduva and Dragoş Nica*

*by George Andrei Draghici, Cristina Deheleana, Razvan Susan,* 

Spatial Distribution According to Physicochemical Parameters *by Raphael Abdoulaye Ndione, Sidy Bakhoum, Chistopher Haggerty, Nicolas Jouanard, Simon Senghor, Papa Demba Ndao, Gilles Riveau* 

Sponge Fishery and Aquaculture in Cuba: Impacts and Challenges

*by Betanzos-Vega Abel, Mazón-Suástegui José Manuel, Formoso-García Mario* 

Ecology, Biology and Genetics of *Millepora* Hydrocorals on Coral Reefs *by Caroline E. Dubé, Chloé A.F. Bourmaud, Alexandre Mercière, Serge Planes* 

**Preface III**

Ecophysiology **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 51** Chemoprotective Effect of Edible Gastropod, *Xancus pyrum* and Its Usefulness

**Chapter 4 71** Intermediate Host Snails of Human Schistosomes in the Senegal River Delta:

Management **81**

**Chapter 5 83** Reproductive Biology, Seed Production, and Culture of the Hawaiian Limpet

**Chapter 6 103**
