Native Hawaiian Tiger Cowries Eat Alien Invasive Species

ENN
Aug 20, 2020, 9:33 am162 pts
Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have just discovered that the Hawaiian tiger cowrie (Leho-kiko in Hawaiian) is a voracious predator of alien sponges such as the Orange Keyhole sponge, which can overgrow native corals and has become a…

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