Feeding preferences of two predatory snails introduced to Hawaii and their conservation implications

Malacologia

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 135-144

  Meyer III, Wallace M ^a   Cowie, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

consumption rate; Euglandina rosea; Gastropoda; Oxychilus alliarius; slug

Indexed keywords

EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; OXYCHILUS ALLIARIUS; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 79956157428     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4002/040.053.0106     Document Type: Article

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