“…Hence, shell form is prone to convergent evolution at various taxonomic levels (Wagner & Erwin, 2006). Phylogenetically closely related species, even within genus level, are known not to have similar shell size (Teshima et al, 2003;Parmakelis et al, 2003;Johnson et al, 2004;Ketmaier, Giusti & Caccone, 2006;Bichain et al, 2007;Kameda, Kawakita & Kato, 2007;Elejalde et al, 2008a;Fiorentino et al, 2008b;Puslednik et al, 2009;Buckley et al, 2011;Stankowski, 2011;Criscione, Law & Koehler, 2012;Koehler& Johnson, 2012;Lee, Lue & Wu, 2012;Criscione & koehler, 2013;Du et al, 2013, but see Martinez-Orti et al, 2008Kotsakiozi et al, 2013). Similary, shell shape similarity does not usually translate to a close phylogenetic relationship between species (Boato, 1991;Emberton, 1995;Teshima et al, 2003;Tongkerd et al, 2004;Elejalde et al, 2005;Noshi & Sota, 2007;Elejalde et al, 2008a;Elejalde et al, 2008b;Stankowski, 2011;Johnson et al, 2012;Haase, Esch & Misof, 2013).…”