Invasion of the North Amrican Amphipod (Gammarus tigrinus Sexton, 1939) into the Cronian Lagoon, South-Eastern Baltic Sea

Acta Zoologica Lituanica

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-26

  Daunys, Darius ^a   Zettler, Michael L ^b  

^a KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Curonian Lagoon; Gammarus tigrinus; Invasion; Lithuania; Malacostraca

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047161983     PISSN: 13921657     EISSN: 16486919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13921657.2006.10512705     Document Type: Article

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