Compressibility and shell failure in the European Atlantic Patella limpets

Marine Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 585-597

  Cabral, João Paulo ^a   Natal Jorge, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; COMPRESSIBILITY; GASTROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; SHELL;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PATELLA (GASTROPOD); PATELLA INTERMEDIA; PATELLA RUSTICA; PATELLA ULYSSIPONENSIS; PATELLA VULGATA; PATELLIDAE; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 33845652659     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0379-0     Document Type: Article

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