Escape responses in four epibenthic brittle stars (ophiuroidea: Echinodermata)

Ophelia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 163-179

  Sköld, Mattias ^a,b  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Environmental Affaires ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; LABRUS BERGYLTA; PREDATION;

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PREDATION;

OPHIOCOMINA NIGRA; OPHIOTHRIX FRAGILIS; OPHIURA ALBIDA; OPHIURA OPHIURA;

EID: 0032466183     PISSN: 00785326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1998.10409380     Document Type: Article

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