Interspecific differences in snail susceptibility to crab predation at Jakobsen’s Beach, Lake Tanganyika
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The robust crushing chelae of durophagous crabs in Lake Tanganyika and the heavily calcified and ornate shells of endemic thiarid gastropods have been identified as highly derived coevolutionary adaptations to predator-prey interactions between the two taxa (West and Cohen 1994, West et al. 1991). There is a striking diversity of adaptations among gastropods in the lake that signal the evolution of unique intraand inter-generic morphologies and behaviors as strategies for predator defense (West and Cohen, 1996).
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