Assessing substrate quality by the sand-bubbler crab, Dotilla Fenestrata (Brachyura, Ocypodidae): Preliminary results from a field experiment

Crustaceana

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 187-191

  Gherardi, Francesca ^a   Russo, Silvia ^a   Lazzara, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CRAB; SUBSTRATE;

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DOTILLA; FENESTRIDA; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 0036270051     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685400252902407     Document Type: Article

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3. The feeding behaviour of the sand bubbler crab Scopimera inflata (Decapoda, Ocypodidae)
4. Burrowing in the ocypodid crab, Dotilla fenestrata (Crustacea, Ocypodidae), living in a mangrove swamp
5. Burrow-orientated activity in the ocypodid crab, Dotilla fenestrata, living in a mangrove swamp
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7. Factors affecting the distribution and behaviour of the crab Dotilla fenestrata on East African shores
8. Environmental regulation of foraging in the sand fiddler crab Uca pugilator (Bosc, 1802)
9. Experimental studies on the foraging behavior of the sand fiddler crab Uca pugilator (Bosc, 1802)
10. Functional analysis of fiddler crab foraging: Sex-specific mechanics and constraints in Uca pugnax (Smith)
11. Ontogeny versus phylogeny in determining patterns of chemoreception: Initial studies with fiddler crabs