Observations on feeding and population structure of five New Zealand terrestrial planarians which prey on lumbricid earthworms

Annals of Applied Biology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 351-358

  Yeates, G W ^a   Boag, B ^b   Johns, P M ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Artioposthia testacea; Artioposthia triangulata; Australoplana sanguinea var. alba; Feeding; Flatworm; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTHURDENDYUS TRIANGULATUS; ARTIOPOSTHIA; ARTIOPOSTHIA TESTACEA; AUSTRALOPLANA; AUSTRALOPLANA SANGUINEA; LUMBRICIDAE; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TESTACEALOBOSIA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 0031439288     PISSN: 00034746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1997.tb05161.x     Document Type: Article

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