Molluscan hard-substrate associations in the northern Red Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-378

  Zuschin, M ^a   Piller, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Northern Bay of Safaga; Reef flats; Sarcophyton carpets; Scleractinian carpets; Tidal flats

Indexed keywords

CERITHIUM; CERITHIUM RUPPELLI; CHAMOIDEA; CORALLIOPHILA NERITOIDEA; DENDROPOMA MAXIMA; FAVIIDAE; MODIOLUS AURICULATUS; MOLLUSCA; MORULA GRANULATA; NERITA ALBICILLA; NERITOIDEA; PEDUM SPONDYLOIDEUM; PITAR; PITAR HEBRAEA; PORITES; SARCOPHYTON; SCLERACTINIA; TRIDACNA MAXIMA; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; CHAMOIDAE; GASTROPODA;

CORAL REEF; MOLLUSC ASSOCIATION; SUBSTRATE;

EGYPT, BAY OF SAFAGA;

EID: 0031426494     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1997.tb00447.x     Document Type: Article

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