Gastropod shells recycled - An example from a rocky tidal flat in the northern Red Sea

Lethaia

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-134

  Zuschin, Martin ^a   Piller, Werner E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Encrustation; Gastropods; Pagurization; Rhodolith formation; Secondary inhabitants

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; RHODOPHYTA; STOMATOPODA;

COLONIZATION; CORALLINE RED ALGAE; ENCRUSTATION; ENCRUSTING ORGANISMS; GASTROPOD; GASTROPOD SHELL; HERMIT CRAB; PAGURIZATION; RHODOLITH; ROCKY SHORES; SECONDARY INHABITANT; SHELL RECYCLING; SHELLS; TAPHONOMY;

EGYPT, BAY OF SAFAGA; RED SEA;

EID: 0030666633     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1997.tb00453.x     Document Type: Article

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