Reproductive biology of the freshwater crayfish, Euastacus spinifer (Decapoda: Parastacidae), from the Sydney Region, Australia

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1997, Issue 118, 1997, Pages 131-155

  Turvey, Paul ^a,b   Merrick, John R ^c  

^a University of Sydney ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Dimorphism; Euastacus spinifer; Maturation; Reproduction; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142601595     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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