Calliopaea bellula feeding upon egg-masses of Haminoea orbignyana: Oophagy among opisthobranch molluscs

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 423-424

  Coelho, Rita ^a   Malaquias, Manuel ^a,b   Calado, Gonçalo ^a,c  

^a Instituto Portugues de Malacologia   (Portugal)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL LAGOON; EGG PREDATION; GASTROPOD;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FARO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; RIA FORMOSA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CEPHALASPIDEA; GASTROPODA; HALOPHILA; HAMINOEA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33644889375     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406013294     Document Type: Article

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