External factors determining seasonal breeding in a subtropical population of the shore crab pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850) (brachyura, grapsidae)

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 149-155

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

^a NEBECC Study Group on Crustacean Biology   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Pachygrapsus transversus; Seasonal breeding; Shore crab

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032439209     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.1998.9652647     Document Type: Article

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