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Selective consumption of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) by scleractinian corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)

Recent studies revealed that reef corals can eat large-sized pelagic and benthic animals in addition to small planktonic prey. As follow-up, we document natural ingestion of sea slugs by corals and investigate the role of sacoglossan sea slugs as possible prey items of scleractinian corals. Feeding...

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Autores principales: Mehrotra, Rahul, Monchanin, Coline, Scott, Chad M., Phongsuwan, Niphon, Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel, Chavanich, Suchana, Hoeksema, Bert W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31034493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215063