Water uptake via two pairs of specialized legs in Ligia exotica (Crustacea, Isopoda)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-203

  Horiguchi, Hiroko ^a   Hironaka, Mantaro ^a   Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^b   Hariyama, Takahiko ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIALIZATION; WATER UPTAKE;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DACTYLUS; ISOPODA; LIGIA EXOTICA;

EID: 35549010709     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25066635     Document Type: Article

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