PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LEPSIELLA (BEDEVA) PAIVAE (GASTROPODA: MURICIDAE) AND KATELYSIA SCALARINA (BIVALVIA: VENERIDAE) IN PRINCESS ROYAL HARBOUR, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

On a sandy beach at Shoal Bay in Princess Royal Harbour, Albany, southwestern Western Australia, lives a small muricid gastropod that feeds virtually monotonically on the overwhelmingly dominant resident bivalve Katelysia scalarina. Lepsiella paivae lives buried in the sand and attacks its prey with...

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Published in:Journal of Molluscan Studies
Main Author: MORTON, BRIAN
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2005
Subjects:
Article
Southern Ocean
Austral
Sandy Beach
Online Access:http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/eyi049v1
https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyi049

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