Burrowing behaviour and cost in the sandy-beach oniscid isopod Tylos granulatus krauss, 1843

Crustaceana

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 425-437

  Brown, A C ^a   Trueman, E R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Herons Creek   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ISOPODA; ONISCIDAE; TYLOS GRANULATUS;

BEACH; BURROWING;

EID: 0029659766     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854096X01014     Document Type: Article

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