Bathymetric distribution and diversity of deep water polychaetous annelids in the Sigsbee Basin, northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 496, Issue , 2003, Pages 361-370

  Pérez Mendoza, Alma Yazmín ^a   Hernández Alcántara, Pablo ^a   Solís Weiss, Vivianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Diversity; Gulf of mexico; Polychaetes; Sigsbee basin

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; SAMPLING;

SPECIES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP SEA; POLYCHAETE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ANNELIDA; CIRRATULIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PARAONIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SPIONIDAE;

EID: 0242592420     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026133907343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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