No Honor Among Snails: Conspecific Competition Leads to Incomplete Drill Holes in the Naticid Gastropod Neverita delessertiana (R cluz)
The fossil record of drilling predation has been widely used to study predator-prey interactions and their relative importance on long-term evolutionary processes. Incomplete drill holes have been interpreted as indicators of failed attacks due to well-defended prey. However, this interpretation is...
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Scholar Commons
2012
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4336 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5532&context=etd |