Video-monitored predation by Caribbean reef fishes on an array of mangrove and reef sponges

Marine Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-123

  Dunlap, M ^a   Pawlik, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSTRACION QUADRICORNIS; AGELAS; AGELAS WIEDENMAYERI; ANTHOZOA; APLYSINA FISTULARIS; CANTHERHINES PULLUS; CHONDROSIA COLLECTRIX; GALAXIAS MACULATUS; GEODIA GIBBEROSA; GEODIA NEPTUNI; HALICHONDRIA; HOLACANTHUS BERMUDENSIS; HOLACANTHUS TRICOLOR; INVERTEBRATA; LACTOPHRYS TRIGONUS; PISCES; POMACANTHUS ARCUATUS; PSEUDAXINELLA; PSEUDAXINELLA LUNAECHARTA; PULLUS; SPARISOMA AUROFRENATUM; SPARISOMA CHRYSOPTERUM; SPARISOMA CRETENSE; TEDANIA IGNIS; LACTOPHRYS QUADRICORNIS; PORIFERA;

PREDATION; REEF FISH; SPONGE; SPONGE DISTRIBUTION;

USA, FLORIDA, KEY LARGO;

EID: 0029660330     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00571383     Document Type: Article

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