Wind-Powered Wheel Locomotion, Initiated by Leaping Somersaults, in Larvae of the Southeastern Beach Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis media)

Alan Harvey; Sarah Zukoff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017746

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Wind-Powered Wheel Locomotion, Initiated by Leaping Somersaults, in Larvae of the Southeastern Beach Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis media)

Alan Harvey ,

* E-mail: aharvey@georgiasouthern.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America
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Sarah Zukoff

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Wind-Powered Wheel Locomotion, Initiated by Leaping Somersaults, in Larvae of the Southeastern Beach Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis media)

Alan Harvey,
Sarah Zukoff

Published: March 23, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017746

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Wheel locomotion in salamanders

Posted by twrichardson on 08 Dec 2012 at 22:14 GMT

Great paper - loved the videos! As another example, Mt. Lyell salamanders (Hydromantes platycephalus) also employ a gravity-assisted wheel-type escape. See:

García-París, M. & Deban, S. M. 1995. A novel antipredator mechanism in salamanders: rolling escape in Hydromantes platycephalus. Journal of Herpetology 29, 149-151

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Wind-Powered Wheel Locomotion, Initiated by Leaping Somersaults, in Larvae of the Southeastern Beach Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis media)

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Posted by twrichardson on 08 Dec 2012 at 22:14 GMT