Alien species of spionid polychaetes (Streblospio gynobranchiata and Polydora cornuta) in Izmir Bay, eastern Mediterranean

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 821-827

  Çinar, Melih Ertan ^a   Ergen, Zeki ^a   Dagli, Ertan ^a   Petersen, Mary E ^b,c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLAST WATER; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; POLYCHAETE; RANGE EXPANSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IZMIR [TURKEY]; IZMIR BAY; TURKEY; WORLD;

POLYCHAETA; POLYDORA CORNUTA; SPIONIDA; STREBLOSPIO GYNOBRANCHIATA;

EID: 22944479295     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405011768     Document Type: Article

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