Are echinoderm egg size distributions bimodal?

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-305

  Sewell, Mary A ^a   Young, Craig M ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; INVERTEBRATE; LECITHOTROPHY; PLANKTOTROPHY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASTEROIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 0031284502     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542932     Document Type: Article

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