A modern soft-bottom, shallow-water crinoid fauna (Echinodermata) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 164-168

  Messing, C G ^a   Meyer, D L ^b   Siebeck, U E ^c   Jermiin, L S ^d   Vaney, D I ^c   Rouse, G W ^e,f  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; FEEDING BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LIZARD ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; PELMATOZOA; SQUAMATA; ZYGOMETRA MICRODISCUS;

EID: 33644621426     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-005-0076-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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