Crush-resistance of soft-sediment gastropods of Lake Malaŵi: Implications for prey selection by Molluscivorous fishes

Agriculture & Biology

• Gastropoda 61%
• snails 58%
• sediments 57%
• lakes 51%
• Melanoides tuberculatus 48%
• fish 35%
• Bulinus globosus 33%
• intermediate hosts 22%
• shell (molluscs) 20%
• Melanoides 18%
• fauna 17%
• Bulinus 15%
• crushing 12%
• morphs 10%
• villages 9%
• predators 7%
• tissues 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• snail 68%
• gastropod 65%
• fish 37%
• lake 36%
• sediment 29%
• intermediate host 24%
• shell 13%
• fauna 13%
• index 13%
• crushing 9%
• range size 8%
• fishing 7%
• predator 7%
• tissue 6%
• indicator 5%
• cost 4%