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Vasula melones

Synonyms: Purpura crassa; Purpura melones; Thais melones

Wikipedia Abstract

Thais melones is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Prey / Diet

Ceratozona angusta[1]
Chama echinata[1]
Chiton stokesii (Stokes's Chiton)[1]
Lamarcka mutabilis[1]
Stramonita biserialis[2]

Predators

Diodon hystrix (Ajargo)[1]
Heliaster microbrachius[1]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1A test of the Menge-Sutherland model of community organization in a tropical rocky intertidal food web, Bruce A. Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen D. Gaines, Linda R. Ashkenas, Oecologia (Berlin) (1986) 71: 75-89
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0