Foraging and homing behaviour in the high-shore, crevice-dwelling limpet Helcion pectunculus (Prosobranchia: Patellidae)

Marine Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-294

  Gray, D R ^a   Hodgson, A N ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MOLLUSC; SEASONALITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

GASTROPODA; HELCION PECTUNCULUS;

EID: 0031736390     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050394     Document Type: Article

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