Blenniidae along the Italian coasts of the Ligurian and the Tyrrhenian Sea: Community structure and new records of Scartella cristata for Northern Italy

Cybium

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 359-369

  Nieder, Jürgen ^a   La Mesa, Gabriele ^b   Vacchi, Marino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ICRAM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blenniidae; Community structure; Ligurian sea; MED; Scartella cristata; Tyrrhenian Sea; Visual census

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034736483     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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