Feeding and masking selection in Inachus phalangium (Decapoda, Majidae): Dressing up has never been so complicated

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 336, Issue , 2007, Pages 225-233

  Rorandelli, Rocco ^a   Gomei, Marina ^a   Vannini, Marco ^a   Cannicci, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemically mediated defence; Decoration; Dictyota; Functional morphology; Spider crab

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALGA; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; CRAB; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PROTIST;

ALGAE; ARANEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DICTYOTA DICHOTOMA; INACHUS PHALANGIUM; MAJIDAE; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 34249936135     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps336225     Document Type: Article

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