Calanoid copepods from the lowland forest zone of Cameroon (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Tropodiaptomus

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 489, Issue , 2002, Pages 99-106

  Chiambeng, George Y ^a,b   Dumont, Henri J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Res Stn for Fish and Oceanography   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Calanoid copepods; Cameroon; Camerundiaptomus; Lowland tropical forest; Taxonomy; Thermodiaptomus; Tropodiaptomus

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OCEAN HABITATS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

MICROFAUNA;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRUSTACEAN; ENDEMIC SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

CAMEROON;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038513553     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023258604374     Document Type: Article

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