Cuticular ultrastructure of fossil and living homolodromiid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Feldmann, Rodney M ^a   Gaździcki, Andrzej ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Caribbean Sea; Cuticular ultrastructure; Decapoda; Homolodromiidae; Miocene

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA;

EID: 0031853282     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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