Functional significance of shell sculpture in gastropod molluscs: Test of a predator-deterrent hypothesis in Ceratostoma foliatum (Gmelin)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-251

  Donovan, Deborah A ^a   Danko, Jean Paul ^a   Carefoot, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer productus; Ceratostoma foliatum; Nucella lamellosa; Predator defense; Pycnopodia helianthoides; Shell sculpture

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE MECHANISM; DESIGN; PREDATION; SHELL;

ARTICLE; CRAB; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR;

CANCER PRODUCTUS; CERATOSTOMA FOLIATUM; HEXAGRAMMUS DECAGRAMMUS; NUCELLA LAMELLOSA; PYCNOPODIA HELIANTHOIDES;

EID: 0033119267     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(98)00200-7     Document Type: Article

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