Tree-climbing behaviour of Cerithidea decollata, a western Indian Ocean mangrove gastropod (Mollusca: Potamididae)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1429-1436

  Vannini, Marco ^a   Rorandelli, Rocco ^a   Lähteenoja, Outi ^b   Mrabu, Elisha ^c   Fratini, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c KENYA MARINE AND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; GASTROPOD; HABITAT SELECTION; MANGROVE; MIGRATION; SHORELINE; SNAIL; WATER LEVEL;

AFRICA; COAST PROVINCE; EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); KENYA; MIDA CREEK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; CERITHIDEA DECOLLATA; GASTROPODA; LUMNITZERA RACEMOSA; MOLLUSCA; POTAMIDIDAE; RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA;

EID: 33947134790     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406014470     Document Type: Article

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