Seasonality, habitat preference and life history of some Willamette Valley wet prairie terrestrial molluscs in Western Oregon, USA

Veliger

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 220-227

  Severns, Paul M ^a,b  

^a US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARION ATER; ARION HORTENSIS; CATINELLA REHDERI; DEROCERAS LAEVE; DEROCERAS RETICULATUM; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; MONADENIA FIDELIS; PROPHYSAON ANDERSONI; VERTIGO MODESTA;

EID: 33845254806     PISSN: 00423211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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