Swimming and buoyancy in ontogenetic stages of the cushion star Pteraster tesselatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) and their implications for distribution and movement

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-314

  Kelman, Dovi ^a   Emlet, Richard B ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECHINODERM; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; PTERASTER TESSELATUS;

EID: 0033428356     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542784     Document Type: Article

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