Biodiversity in midwater cnidarians and ctenophores: Submersible-based results from deep-water bays in the Japan Sea and north-western Pacific

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 503-517

  Lindsay, Dhugal J ^a   Hunt, James C ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; CHUBU; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; SAGAMI BAY; TOYAMA [CHUBU]; TOYAMA BAY; WORLD;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA;

EID: 22744449344     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405011434     Document Type: Article

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