Shallow water crabs from the Western Indian Ocean: Portunoidea and Xanthoidea excluding Pilumnidae (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura)

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-66

  Neumann, V ^a   Piridonov, V A ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brachyura; Carpiliidae; Habitat; Menippidae; Portunidae; Trapeziidae; Western Indian Ocean; Xanthidae; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CARPILIIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MENIPPIDAE; PILUMNIDAE; PORTUNIDAE; PORTUNOIDEA; XANTHIDAE; XANTHOIDEA;

EID: 0033480909     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1999.10539377     Document Type: Article

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