The diet of two mud-shrimps, calocaris macandreae and upogebia stellata (crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)

Ophelia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-223

  Pinn, Eunice H ^a,c   Rogerson, A ^b,c   Atkinson, R J A ^c  

^a South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; SHRIMP; STRAUSS LINEAR FOOD SELECTION INDEX;

CRUSTACEAN; DIET; FILTER FEEDER; FOOD PREFERENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALOCARIS MACANDREAE; DECAPODA; UPOGEBIA STELLATA;

EID: 0031902169     PISSN: 00785326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00785236.1998.10426967     Document Type: Article

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