Age distribution, growth, and lifetime copulation frequency of a freshwater snail, Clithon retropictus (Neritidae)

Population Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 133-140

  Shigemiya, Yusuke ^a   Kato, Makoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copulation pattern; Growth line; Life history; Spermatophore; Upstream migration

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COPULATION; GROWTH; LONGEVITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SNAIL;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TAKASE RIVER;

BASOMMATOPHORA; CLITHON; CLITHON RETROPICTUS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NERITIDAE;

EID: 0034803235     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012024     Document Type: Article

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