Fecundity of snow crab Chionoecetes opilio off Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan

Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition)

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 673-680

  Kon, Tohshi ^a,c   Adachi, Tatsunori ^a,b  

^a Snow Crab Museum   (Japan)

^b Fukui Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

^c Fukui Prefecture Office ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIONOECETES OPILIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 33749832339     PISSN: 00215392     EISSN: 1349998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/suisan.72.673     Document Type: Article

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