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Environmental adaptations of the African snailLimicolaria festiva Martens

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L. festiva is able to exist in the hot, arid, Sahel savanna regions of Africa in consequence of its nocturnal circadian rhythm of locomotory activity, and its low rate of water loss during periods of inactivity when an epiphragm has been secreted and while the snail is aestivating.

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  1. El Amin El Rayah

    Present address: Department of Zoology, University of Khartoum, P.O.Box 321, Khartoum, Sudan

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  1. Department of Zoology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX, London, England

    El Amin El Rayah, C. Constantinou & J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson

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El Rayah, E.A., Constantinou, C. & Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. Environmental adaptations of the African snailLimicolaria festiva Martens. Int J Biometeorol 28, 327–331 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02188561

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