Tolerance of forced air emergence by a fish with a broad vertical distribution, the rockpool blenny, Hypsoblennius gilberti (Blenniidae)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Luck, Aimee S ^a   Martin, Karen L M ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air breathing; Desiccation; Hypoxia; Intertidal; Respiration; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

HYPSOBLENNIUS GILBERTI;

EID: 0032965611     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007584406324     Document Type: Article

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