The boreholes of the sea urchin genus Echinometra (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Echinometridae) as a microhabitat in tropical south America

Marine Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 181-186

  Schopfe, Sabine ^a   Werding, Bernd ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyrtus; Arcos; Association; Caribbean Sea; Clastotoechus; Eastern Pacific; Echinoidea; Echinometra; Ophiothrix; Ophiuridea; Pisces; Porcellanid crab; Rock borer

Indexed keywords

ACYRTUS; ACYRTUS RUBIGINOSUS; ARCOS; CLASTOTOECHUS; CLASTOTOECHUS GORGONENSIS; CLASTOTOECHUS VANDERHORSTI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; ECHINOMETRA; ECHINOMETRA LUCUNTER; ECHINOMETRA VANBRUNTI; ECHINOMETRIDAE; OPHIOTHRIX; OPHIOTHRIX SYNOECINA; OPHIURIDEA; PISCES; PORCELLANIDAE; DECAPODA; OPHIUROIDEA;

BOREHOLE; BORING ORGANISMS; ECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS; SEA URCHIN;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 0030499249     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1996.tb00499.x     Document Type: Article

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