Saturday, 12 December 2015

evolution - Does the species of snake that eats Amphidromous inversus have chiral dimorphism?


From what I read at Schilthuizen and Davison (2005), Amphidromous inversus is a species of snail that occurs in 2 forms that are nearly mirror images of each other occurring in nearly equal proportions. I don't see any way that could be evolutionary stable if it was only eaten by snakes with a symmetrical jaw because then the snake species would evolve to be ambidextrous and then the snails would lose the selection pressure for being the rarer form but retain the selection pressure for the more common form. I can't find the information anywhere on the internet of what the snake species that eats that species of snail looks like. Have observations shown that that species of snake has a chiral jaw and occurs in 2 forms that are mirror images of each other in nearly equal proportions?




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