Feeding habits and phenotypic changes in proboscis length in the southern oyster drill, Stramonita haemastoma (Gastropoda: Muricidae), on Florida sabellariid worm reefs

Marine Biology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1021-1029

  Watanabe, Jeffrey T ^a,c   Young, Craig M ^b,d  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Ohlone College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; POLYCHAETE; REEF;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WALTON ROCKS BEACH;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MURICIDAE; OSTREIDAE; PHRAGMATOPOMA LAPIDOSA; POLYCHAETA; SABELLARIIDAE; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA;

EID: 33344464416     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0152-9     Document Type: Article

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