Factors influencing food choice by the seaweed-eating marine snail Norrisia norrisi (Trochidae)

Marine Biology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 631-642

  Wakefield, R L ^a   Murray, S N ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD SELECTION; HERBIVORY; KELP; MACROALGAE; SEA SNAIL;

DICTYOTA FLABELLATA; EGREGIA MENZIESII; EISENIA ARBOREA; ENDARACHNE BINGHAMIAE; GASTROPODA; HALIDRYS DIOICA; MACROCYSTIC PYRIFERA; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; MAZZAELLA FLACCIDA; NORRISIA NORRISI; PTEROCLADIA CAPILLACEA; ULVA LOBATA; ULVA LOBOTA;

EID: 0031917302     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002270050285     Document Type: Article

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