Notes on the behaviour of the portunid crab charybdis longicollis leene parasitized by the rhizocephalan heterosaccus dollfusi boschma

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 32, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1577-1585

  Innocenti, G ^a   Vannini, M ^a   Galil, B S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Charybdis; Heterosaccus; Parasitism; Rhizocephala

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CRUSTACEAN; PARASITE INFESTATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CHARYBDIS LONGICOLLIS; CIRRIPEDIA; DECAPODA; HETEROSACCUS DOLLFUSI;

EID: 0031734037     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222939800771111     Document Type: Article

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