Swimming behaviour and food searching in planktonic Octopus vulgaris Cuvier from hatching to settlement

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 169-184

  Villanueva, Roger ^a   Nozais, Christian ^b   Boletzky, Sigurd V ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

Author keywords

Cephalopoda; Larva; Octopus vulgaris; Predation; Swimming; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PLANKTON; PREDATION; SWIMMING;

OCTOPUS VULGARIS; CEPHALOPODA;

CEPHALOPOD LARVA; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; LARVAE; PLANKTONIC STAGE; PREDATION; SWIMMING; SWIMMING BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030621010     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(96)02670-6     Document Type: Article

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