Parasites and symbionts of crabs from Ubatuba Bay, São Paulo State, Brazil

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-214

  Mantelatto, Fernando L ^a   O'Brien, Jack J ^b   Biagi, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barnacles; Brachyura; Brazil; Carcinonemertes carcinophila ct. imminuta; Chelonibia patula; Nemertean worm; Octolasmis lowei; Ubatuba

Indexed keywords

ARENAEUS CRIBRARIUS; BRACHYURA; CALAPPIDAE; CALLINECTES DANAE; CALLINECTES ORNATUS; CARCINONEMERTES CARCINOPHILA; CHARYBDIS HELLERI; CHARYBDIS HELLERII; CHELONIBIA PATULA; DANAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEPATUS PUDIBUNDUS; LEUCOSIIDAE; LIBINIA; LIBINIA FERREIRAE; MAJIDAE; NEMERTEAN; OCTOLASMIS LOWEI; PERSEPHONA LICHTENSTEINII; PERSEPHONA MEDITERRANEA; POLYCHAETA; PORTUNIDAE; PORTUNUS SPINICARPUS; PORTUNUS SPINIMANUS; THORACICA;

EID: 0042701709     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4066     Document Type: Article

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