The potential of the invasive snail pomacea canaliculata as a predator of various life-stages of five species of freshwater snails

Malacologia

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 343-356

  Kwong, King Lun ^a   Chan, Robert K Y ^a   Qiu, Jian Wen ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Apple snail; Crushing resistance; Invasive species; Pomacea; Predation

Indexed keywords

AUSTROPEPLEA OLLULA; BASOMMATOPHORA; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA STRAMINEA; GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; PHYSA ACUTA; POMACEA; POMACEA CANALICULATA; SINOTAIA;

EID: 77149146243     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4002/040.051.0208     Document Type: Article

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