Food habit of Platydemus manokwari De Beauchamp, 1962 (Tricladida: Terricola: Rhynchodemidae), known as a predatory flatworm of land snails in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 609-614

  Ohbayashi, Takashi ^a,c   Okochi, Isamu ^b   Sato, Hiroki ^b   Ono, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a Ogasawara Subtropical Branch   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Plant Protection Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Achatina fulica; Decline of land snails; Euglandina rosea; Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands; Platydemus manokwari

Indexed keywords

ACHATINA FULICA; EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; NEMERTEA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PLATYDEMUS MANOKWARI; PLATYHELMINTHES; RHYNCHODEMIDAE; STYLOMMATOPHORA; TERRICOLA; TRICLADIDA;

EID: 33644518212     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2005.609     Document Type: Article

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