Underwater punting by an intertidal crab: A novel gait revealed by the kinematics of pedestrian locomotion in air versus water

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2609-2623

  Martinez, Marlene M ^a   Full, R J ^a   Koehl, M A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Biomechanics; Crab; Crustacean; Gait; Grapsus tenuicrustatus; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

GRAPSUS TENUICRUSTATUS;

EID: 0031739404     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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