The marine insect Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae): Biology, adaptations, distribution, and phylogeny

Oceanography and Marine Biology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2005, Pages 119-179

  Andersen, Nils Møller ^a   Cheng, Lanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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