A morphometric study of the mud crab, Panopeus austrobesus Williams, 1983 (Decapoda, Brachyura) from a subtropical mangrove in South America

Crustaceana

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-294

  Negreiros Fransozo, Maria Lucia ^a   Fransozo, Vívian ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CRAB; GROWTH; MANGROVE; MORPHOMETRY;

BRAZIL;

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; PANOPEIDAE; PANOPEUS; SCYLLA SERRATA;

EID: 0041847219     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854003765911685     Document Type: Article

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