Population structure, fecundity and embryo loss of the sea grass shrimp Latreutes pymoeus (Decapoda: Hippolytidae) at Inhaca Island, Mozambique

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 879-884

  Penha Lopes, Gil ^a   Torres, Paulo ^a   MacIa, Adriano ^b   Paula, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BROOD SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FECUNDITY; INCUBATION; MORPHOMETRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEAGRASS;

AFRICA; INHACA ISLAND; MAPUTO [MOZAMBIQUE]; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HIPPOLYTIDAE; LATREUTES;

EID: 34547495535     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407056767     Document Type: Article

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