Feeding association of the copepod Rhicalanus gigas with the tunicate salp Salpa thompsoni in the southern ocean

Marine Biology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 479-483

  Perissinotto, R ^a   Pakhomov, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHICALANUS GIGAS; SALPA THOMPSONI;

EID: 0031059281     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050036     Document Type: Article

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