Natural diet of grapsoid crab Plagusia dentipes de Haan (Decapoda: Brachyura: Plagusiidae) in Tateyama Bay, Japan

Fisheries Science

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 171-177

  Samson, Stepanus A ^a,b   Yokota, Masashi ^a   Strüssmann, Carlos A ^a   Watanabe, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MULAWARMAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Articulated coralline algae; Grapsoidea; Natural diet; Plagusia dentipes; Season; Sex

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BIVALVIA; BRACHYURA; CAPRELLIDA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINOIDA; GASTROPODA; GRAPSOIDEA; ISOPODA; MOLLUSCA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PLAGUSIA DENTIPES; PLAGUSIIDAE; POLYCHAETA; RHODOPHYTA; ULVACEAE;

EID: 33846631312     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2007.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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