Annual migrations and spawning of Coenobita clypeatus (Herbst) on Mona Island (Puerto Rico) and notes on inland crustaceans

Crustaceana

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 547-558

  Nieves Rivera, Ángel M ^a   Williams Jr , Ernest H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; LUNAR CYCLE; MIGRATION; SPAWNING;

PUERTO RICO;

COENOBITA CLYPEATUS; COENOBITIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141572504     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854003322316191     Document Type: Article

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