Population and reproductive features of the western Atlantic hermit crab Pagurus criniticornis (Anomura, Paguridae) from Anchieta Island, southeastern Brazil

Iheringia - Serie Zoologia

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 314-320

  Mantelatto, Fernando L ^a   Faria, Fabíola C R ^a   Iossi, Carmen L ^a   Biagi, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Fecundity; Hermit crab; Populational biology

Indexed keywords

ANACHIS LYRATA; ANIMALIA; ANOMURA; CERITHIUM ATRATUM; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MODULUS MODULUS; MORULA (GASTROPOD); MORULA NODULOSA; PAGURIDAE; PAGURUS CRINITICORNIS;

EID: 37349130534     PISSN: 00734721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0073-47212007000300016     Document Type: Article

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