Observations on the tube-building behaviour of the marine amphipod Cymadusa filosa Savigny (Crustacea: Ampithoidae)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2151-2164

  Appadoo, Chandani ^a   Myers, Alan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; TUBE DWELLER;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; AMPITHOIDAE; COROPHIOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; CYMADUSA; CYMADUSA FILOSA; LACTUCA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM BINDERI; ULVA; ULVA LACTUCA;

EID: 0347948411     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930210147368     Document Type: Article

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