Feeding ecology of Spinocalanus antarcticus, a mesopelagic copepod with a looped gut

Marine Biology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 503-511

  Kosobokova, K N ^a   Hirche, H J ^b   Scherzinger, T ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MORPHOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COPEPODA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); SPINOCALANUS ANTARCTICUS; TINTINNIDAE;

EID: 0036933753     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-002-0848-z     Document Type: Article

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