The planktonic copepod communities from the southern Mediterranean Sea (Algeria, Tunisia) with a re-description of Paracalanus indicus Wolfenden 1905 (Copepoda: Calanoida)

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 327-337

  Khelifi Touhami, Meriem ^a   Semroud, Rachid ^b   Hamdi, El Hadi ^c   Ounissi, Makhlouf ^a   Haridi, Ahcène ^a   Néjib Daly, Mohamed ^c   Aissa, Patricia ^c  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^b University Campus of Dely Ibrahim   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Coastal waters; Copepods; Mediterranean Sea; Paracalanus indicus; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTACEAN; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA;

CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; COPILIA LATA; PARACALANUS INDICUS;

EID: 37549058425     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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