The megalopa and juvenile development of Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850) (Decapoda, Brachyura) compared with other grapsid crabs

Crustaceana

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-222

  Flores, Augusto A V ^a   Negreiros Fransozo, Maria Lucia ^a   Fransozo, Adilson ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; INTERTIDAL ZONE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYURA; DACTYLI; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PACHYGRAPSUS TRANSVERSUS;

EID: 0031980615     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854098X00176     Document Type: Article

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