Surface density and nocturnal activity in a west Texas assemblage of scorpions

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 409-419

  Brown, Christopher A ^a   Davis, John M ^a   O'Connell, Daniel J ^a   Formanowiz Jr , Daniel R ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; DIPLOCENTRUS; SCORPIONES; VAEJOVIS; VAEJOVIS WAUERI;

EID: 0036710748     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672498     Document Type: Review

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