Different life histories of the co-occurring fairy shrimps Branchipus schaefferi and Streptocephalus torvicornis (Anostraca)

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 300-307

  Beladjal, Lynda ^a   Peiren, Nico ^a   Vandekerckhove, Tom T M ^a,b   Mertens, Johan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOSTRACA; BRANCHIPUS SCHAEFFERI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); STREPTOCEPHALUS; STREPTOCEPHALUS TORVICORNIS;

EID: 0037709905     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/20021975-99990340     Document Type: Article

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