Population structure and dynamics of two scopimerine sand crabs Scopimera crabricauda Alcock 1900 and Dotilla sulcata (Forskåll 1775) in an estuarine habitat in Oman

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-215

  Clayton, D A ^a   Al Kindi, A ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Decapoda; Gulf of Oman; Population structure; Reproduction; Scopimerinae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264746     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1998.10539363     Document Type: Article

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