The taxonomic status of the introduced North American signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) in Japan, and the source of specimens in the newly reported population in Fukushima Prefecture

Crustaceana

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 861-870

  Kawai, T ^a   Mitamura, T ^b   Ohtaka, A ^c  

^a Hokkaido Nucl Ener Environ R   (Japan)

^b Northern Water Creatures Project   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUSHIMA; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU; WORLD;

ANNELIDA; ASTACOIDEA; BRANCHIOBDELLIDAE; CLITELLATA; PACIFASTACUS; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS; SATHODRILUS ATTENUATUS;

EID: 10044281934     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854004774248735     Document Type: Article

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