Invertebrate and protozoan epibionts on the velvet swimming crab Liocarcinus puber (Linnaeus, 1767) from Scotland

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Fernandez Leborans, Gregorio ^a   Gabilondo, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cirripeds; Entoprocts; Epibiosis; Hydrozoans; Liocarcinus puber; Polychaetes; Protozoans; Scottish coast

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CILIATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; CRAB; EPIBIONT; INVERTEBRATE; POLYCHAETE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ARGYLL AND BUTE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREAT CUMBRAE; MILLPORT; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BALANUS CRENATUS; BARENTSIA; CILIOPHORA; CLYTIA; COTHURNIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENTOPROCTA; EPHELOTA GEMMIPARA; EPHELOTA PLANA; HYDROIDES NORVEGICA; HYDROZOA; INVERTEBRATA; LEUCKARTIARA; LIOCARCINUS PUBER; POLYCHAETA; POMATOCEROS TRIQUETER; PORTUNIDAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 36649000523     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2007.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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