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- Title
The food of coral-reef Drupa (Gastropoda).
- Authors
TAYLOR, J. D.
- Abstract
Eight species of the predatory gastropod Drupa are abundant in exposed habitats of Indo-Pacific coral reefs. The diets of seven species and two subspecies were investigated by gut content analysis of over 1400 specimens from a number of localities from the Red Sea to the western Pacific. Two species, D. grossularia and D. lobata, are sipunculan specialists, whilst D. morum and D. rubusidaeus mainly eat eunicid polychaetes. Drupa ricinus and probably D. elegans feed upon a wide variety of prey including crustacea, vermetid gastropods, chitons, polychaetes and sipunculans. The Red Sea subspecies D. ricinus hadari also eats small gobiid fish. Drupa clathrata clathrata, probably the least advanced species in the genus, has a diet of molluscs and barnacles, similar to that of other thaiid gastropods.
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1983, Vol 78, Issue 4, p299
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1975.tb02262.x