Breeding in a rockpool: Larvae of the semiterrestrial crab Armases [ = Sesarma] miersii (Rathbun) (Decapoda: Grapsidae) develop in a highly variable environment

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 109-129

  Schuh, Martina ^a   Diesel, Rudolf ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Armases; Larval ecology; Tropical rockpool environment

Indexed keywords

ARMASES MIERSII; ARMASES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; SESARMA MIERSII;

BREEDING BEHAVIOUR; ROCK POOL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

BREEDING; CRAB; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; JAMAICA; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; ROCK; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0028993940     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(94)00139-5     Document Type: Article

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