Aggregations of the sandy-beach isopod, Tylos granulatus: Adaptation or incidental-effect?

African Zoology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 180-189

  Odendaal, F J ^a   Eekhout, S ^a   Brown, A C ^a   Branch, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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