Stereotypy and variation in the claw waving display of the fiddler crab Uca tangeri

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 55-62

  Jordão, Joana M ^a   Curto, Ana F ^a   Oliveira, Rui F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Inter individual variation; Uca tangeri; Waving structure

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA TANGERI;

EID: 34548699699     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-007-0030-1     Document Type: Article

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