Size-dependent mating behaviours of male sand-bubbler crab, Scopimera globosa: Alternative tactics in the life history

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 578-587

  Koga, Tsunenori ^a   Murai, Minoru ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; BURROWS; COPULATION; MATING NEHAVIOUR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR; SAND-BUBBLER CRAB;

DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SCOPIMERA GLOBOSA;

EID: 0030746486     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00169.x     Document Type: Article

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