Behavioural evidence for body colour signaling in the fiddler crab Uca perplexa (Brachyura: Ocypodidae)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 521-527

  Takeda, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body colour; Colour discrimination; Courting display; Fiddler crab; Uca perplexa

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CRAB; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING;

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 33644828265     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2005.09.021     Document Type: Article

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