Predatory behavior of the land flatworm notogynaphallia abundans (platyhelminthes: Tricladida)

Zoologia

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 606-612

  Prasniski, Maria E T ^a   Leal Zanchet, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diet; Isopods; Planarians; Prey preference; Weekly consumption

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ISOPODA; MOLLUSCA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TRICLADIDA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 77957945795     PISSN: 19844670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702009005000011     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. ALFORD, D.V.; B. BOAG; P.M. JOHNS & G.W. YEATES. 1998. Report on the OECD Workshop on terrestrial flatworms. Pedobiologia 42: 385-388.
2. ARAUJO, P.B. 1999. Subordem Oniscidea (Isópodos terrestres, "tatuzinhos"), p. 237-256. In: L. BUCKUP & G. BOND-BUCKUP (Eds). Os crustáceos do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, UFRGS, 503p.
3. BALL, I.R. &T.B. REYNOLDSON. 1981. British Planarians. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 125p.
4. BARKER, G.M. 1989. Flatworm predation of terrestrial mollusks in New Zealand and a brief review of previous records. New Zealand Entomologist 12: 75-79.
5. BLACKSHAW, R.P. 1990. Studies on Artioposthia triangulata (Dendy) (Tricladida: Terricola), a predator of earthworms. Annals of Applied Biology 116: 169-176.
6. BLACKSHAW, R.P. 1991. Mortality of the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Savigny) presented to the terrestrial planarian Artioposthia triangulata (Dendy) (Tricladida: Terricola). Annals of Applied Biology 118: 689-694.
7. BLACKSHAW, R.P. 1997. The planarian Artioposthia triangulate (Dendy) feeding on earthworms in soil columns. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 29: 299-302.
8. BLACKSHAW, R.P. & V.I. STEWART. 1992. Artioposthia triangulate (Dendy) (Tricladida: Terricola), a predatory terrestrial planarian and its potential impact on lumbricid earthworms. Agricultural Zoology Review 5: 201-219.
9. CARBAYO, F. & A.M. LEAL-ZANCHET. 2003. Two new genera of geoplanid land planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) of Brazil in the light of cephalic specialisations. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 449-468.
10. CARBAYO, F.; J PEDRONI & E.M. FROEHLICH. 2007. Colonization and extinction of land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) in a Brazilian Atlantic Forest regrowth remnant. Biolological Invasions 10: 1131-1134.
11. CHRISTENSEN, O.M. & J.G. MATHER. 2001. Long-term study of growth in the New Zealand flatworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus under laboratory conditions. Pedobiologia 45: 535-549.
12. DINDAL, D.L. 1970. Feeding behavior of a terrestrial turbellarian Bipalium adventitium. American Midland Naturalist 83: 635-637.
13. DU BOIS-REYMOND MARCUS, E. 1951. On South American geoplanids. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia, 16: 217-255.
14. DUCEY, P.K. & S. NOCE. 1998. Succesful invasion of New York state by the terrestrial flatworm, Bipalium adventitium. Northeastern Naturalist 5 (3): 199-206.
15. DUCEY, P.K.; M. MESSERE; K. LAPOINT & S. NOCE. 1999. Lumbricid prey and potential hepetofaunal predators of the invading terrestrial flatworm Bipalium adventitium (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola). American Midland Naturalist 141: 305-314.
16. DUCEY, P. K.; L-J. WEST; G. SHAW & J. DELISLE. 2005. Reproductive ecology and evolution in the invasive terrestrial planarian Bipalium adventitium across North America. Pedobiologia 49: 367-377.
17. DUCEY, P.K.; M. MCCORMICK & E. DAVIDSON. 2007. Natural history observations on Bipalium cf. vagum Jones and Sterrer (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), a terrestrial broadhead planarian new to North America. Southeastern Naturalist 6(3): 449-460.
18. FIORE, C.; J.L. TULL; S. ZEHNER & P.K. DUCEY. 2004. Tracking and predation on earthworms by the invasive terrestrial planarian Bipalium adventitium (Tricladida, Platyhelminthes). Behavioural Processes 67: 327-334.
19. FROEHLICH, C.G. 1955. On the biology of land planarians. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Série Zoologia, 20: 263-271.
20. GRAFF, L. VON. 1899. Monographie der Turbellarien. II. Tricladida Terricola. Leipzig, Engelmann. 574p.
21. JENNINGS, J.B. 1959. Observations on the nutrition of the land planarian Orthodemus terrestris (O. F. Müller). Biological Bulletin 117: 119-124.
22. JONES, H.D. & M.S. CUMMING. 1998. Feeding behaviour of the termite-eating planarian Microplana termitophaga (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola) in Zimbabwe. Journal of Zoology 245: 53-64.
23. KOOPOWITZ, H.; D. SILVER & G. ROSE. 1976. Primitive nervous systems. Control and recovery of feeding behavior in the plolyclad flatworm, Notoplana acticola. Biological Bulletin 150: 411-425.
24. LEAL-ZANCHET, A.M. and E.M. FROEHLICH. 2006. A species complex in the genus Notogynaphallia Ogren and Kawakatsu (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) with a taxonomic revision of homonyms of Geoplana marginata Schultze & Müller and a reinterpretation of Notogynaphallia caissara (Froehlich) anatomy. Belgian Journal of Zoology 136: 81-100.
25. MACARTHUR, R.H. & E.R. PIANKA. 1966. On optimal use of a patchy environment. American Naturalist 100: 603-609.
26. OGREN, R.E. 1955. Ecological observations on the occurrence of Rhynchodemus, a terrestrial turbellarian. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 74: 54-60.
27. OGREN, R.E. 1995. Predation behaviour of land planarians. Hydrobiologia 305: 105-111.
28. OHBAYASHI, T.; I. OKOSHI; H. SATO & T. ONO. 2005. Food habit of Platydemus manokwari De Beauchamp, 1962 (Tricladida: Terricola: Rhynchodemidae), known as predatory flatworm of land snails in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan. Applied Entomology and Zoology 40: 609-614.
29. OLEWINE, D.A. 1972. Further observations in Georgia on the land planarians, Bipalium kewense and Geoplana vaga (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola). Association of Southeastern Biologists Bulletin 19: 88.
30. WINSOR, L. 1983. A revision of the cosmopolitan land planarian Bipalium kewense Moseley, 1878 (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 61-100.
31. WINSOR, L.; P.M. JOHNS & G.W. YEATES. 1998. Introduction, and ecological and systematic background, to the Terricola (Tricladida). Pedobiologia 42: 389-404.
32. WRONA, F.J. & H KOOPOWITZ. 1998. Behavior of the rhabdocoel flatworm Mesostoma ehrenbergii in prey capture and feeding. Hydrobiologia 383: 35-40.
33. YEATES, G.W.; B. BOAG & P.M. JOHNS. 1998. Field and laboratory observations on terrestrial planarians from modified habitats in New Zealand. Pedobiologia 42: 554-562.
34. ZABORSKI, E.R. 2002. Observations on feeding behavior by the terrestrial flatworm Bipalium adventitium (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Terricola) from Illinois. American Midland Naturalist 148: 401-408.