Grasping behavior of male snow crab Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fabricius, 1788) (Decapoda, Majidae)

Crustaceana

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-222

  Moriyasu, Mikio ^a   Comeau, Michel ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIONOECETES OPILIO;

DOMINANCE HIERARCHY; MALE-MALE GRASPING; MATING SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0029667184     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854096X00529     Document Type: Article

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