Distribution of freshwater snails in the man-made Oyan Reservoir, Ogun State, Nigeria

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 416, Issue , 1999, Pages 181-191

  Ofoezie, Ifeanyi Emmanuel ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Freshwater snail; Man made reservoir; Nigeria; Snail distribution; Snail ecology; Tropics

Indexed keywords

PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESERVOIR; SNAIL; VEGETATION COVER;

NIGERIA;

BULINUS FORSKALII; BULINUS GLOBOSUS; BULINUS TRUNCATUS; GASTROPODA; INDOPLANORBIS EXUSTUS; LYMNAEA NATALENSIS; POTADOMA FREETHI; POTADOMA MOERCHI;

EID: 0033502016     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003875706638     Document Type: Article

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