Depth and substrate selection by platypuses, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, in the lower Hastings River, New South Wales

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 125, Issue , 2004, Pages 235-241

  Grant, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depth; Foraging; Hastings River; Ornithorynchus anatinus; Platypus; Substrate

Indexed keywords

ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS;

EID: 25144516298     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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