First record of sympagic hydroids (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) in Arctic coastal fast ice

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1557-1563

  Bluhm, Bodil A ^a   Gradinger, Rolf ^a   Piraino, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Arctic; Cnidaria; Hydroid; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; SEA ICE; TAXONOMY;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOMEDUSAE; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; COPEPODA; HYDROIDA; HYDROZOA; POLYCHAETA; PROTOHYDRIDAE;

EID: 34948840943     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0316-9     Document Type: Article

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