Predation on juvenile Aplysia parvula and other small anaspidean, ascoglossan, and nudibranch gastropods by pycnogonids

Veliger

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 330-337

  Rogers, C N ^a   De Nys, R ^a   Steinberg, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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