Shelter preferences in the endemic bermudian hermit crab, calcinus verrilli (rathbun, 1901) (decapoda, anomura)1)

Crustaceana

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 737-750

  Rodrigues Lisa, J ^a,b   Dunham David, W ^a   Coates Kathryn, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; HOST PREFERENCE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SHELL; SHELTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA;

ANIMALIA; ANOMURA; CALCINUS; CERITHIUM LITTERATUM; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DENDROPOMA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERMICULARIA;

EID: 0034486450     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854000504769     Document Type: Article

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