![]() ![]() NOTE: An Erratum for this manuscript was published in Volume 19, Issue 3 that corrected an error in the original manuscript. ![]() This is the first report of a land snail feeding on an amphibian carcass in the United States.ĭownload Full-text pdf (Accessible only to subscribers. However, while working at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in southwestern North Carolina in 2017, I observed a land snail (most likely Cepaea nemoralis ) feeding on the carcass of a Desmognathus aeneus (Seepage Salamander), a vertebrate. Animal carrion is also consumed, and is usually composed of invertebrates like earthworms and other snails. The diet of land snails that are detritivores usually consists of decaying plant material and fungi. It is the only solid ground in the swampland known as the Wrythe for a distance of nearly 20 miles to east or west. The city rises over the swampy southern banks of Kingfisher River. Southeastern Naturalist, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2020): N8–11 Carrion Hill is located in the county of Versex in the Soivoda region of eastern Ustalav. *Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850. correlated with species richness and evenness (Hill et al., 2003). Vertebrate Carrion in Land Snail Diets: First Observation of Amphibian (Plethodontid Salamander) Consumption by a Terrestrial Snail in Southern Appalachia Through putrefactive processes microorganisms present within the body are. ![]()
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