Large-scale patterns of shell variation in Littorina striata, a planktonic developing periwinkle from Macaronesia (Mollusca: Prosobranchia)

Marine Biology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-317

  De Wolf, H ^a   Backeljau, T ^b   Van Dongen, S ^a   Verhagen, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; PERIWINKLE; SHELL MORPHOLOGY; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHEAST);

GASTROPODA; LITTORINA STRIATA;

EID: 0031811581     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050324     Document Type: Article

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