The taxonomy of three commercially important species of mitten crabs of the genus Eriocheir de haan, 1835 (crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae)

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 445-476

  Guo, J Y ^a   Ng, N K ^a   Dai, A ^b   Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Eriocheir; Grapsidae; Mitten crabs; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031330906     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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