TROPHIC ROLES OF CO-OCCURRING SPECIES OF DRUPA (GASTROPODA: MURICIDAE) AT ENEWETAK ATOLL |
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Authors: | THOMAS FLORENCE I M; KOHN ALAN J |
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Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle Washington 98195, USA |
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Abstract: | Diets in nature differed significantly among three species ofthe gastropod genus Drupa (Muricidae: Thaidinae) on a windward,seaward reef platform at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. Nereidand eunicid polychaetes and vermetid gastropods were the mostimportant prey organisms. D. morum ate mainly Perinereis, Ceratonereisand eunicids; D. ricinus ate mainly Ceratonereis in protectedsites and Dendropoma near the exposed outer reef edge. Sizeof Drupa was correlated with that of vermetid but not polychaeteprey. The results are compared with data from studies of otherpredators on the same prey species at Enewetak, and with J.D. Taylor's data on the diets of Drupa species elsewhere inthe Indo-Pacific region.
*Present address: Department of Zoology, University of California,Berkeley, California 94720. (Received 4 February 1989; accepted 6 March 1989) |
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