Occurrence of the potentially invasive crayfish, Orconectes virilis (Decapoda, Cambaridae) in eastern New Brunswick, Canada

Crustaceana

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-511

  Mcalpine, Donald F ^a   Mcalpine, Amber H E ^a   Madden, Alan ^b  

^a NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; INVASIVE SPECIES; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA;

ASTACOIDEA; CAMBARIDAE; ORCONECTES VIRILIS;

EID: 34547500105     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854007780440939     Document Type: Article

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