Generalist carabid beetles are more malacophagous than previously recognized and cause diversified types of shell damage
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DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13179
Abstract: Although most carabids are carnivorous generalists, some species show dietary specializations such as malacophagy, which is characterized by two main strategies of snail predation: entering the shell or breaking it. The shell‐breaking strategy has been… read more here.
Keywords: predation; shell breaking; shell; damage ... See more keywords