Aerial dispersal of freshwater gastropods by dragonflies (Odonata)

Aerial dispersal of freshwater gastropods by dragonflies (Odonata) 00

Hanns-Jürgen Rolanda, Karsten Grabowb, Andreas Martensb ✉️

  1. Im Mühlahl 35, Reichelsheim, Germany
  2. Department of Biology , University of Education Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

International Journal of Odonatology, Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 317-318, 2012

https://doi.org/10.1080/13887890.2012.740402

Published: 1 December 2012 (Received: 14 August 2012, Accepted: 12 October 2012)

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Abstract

At a ditch near Tribsees in northeastern Germany a young individual of the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis was photographed while attached to the dorsum of the abdomen of a female Aeshna viridis, after the odonate took off after oviposition in Stratiotes aloides. This is the first known case for odonate-born dispersal of freshwater gastropods.

Keywords: Odonata, dragonfly, Aeshna, Lymnaea, Gastropoda, Pulmonata, dispersal

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