Incipient parental care in Discus - A Plesiomorphic state of a truly endodontid character?

Journal of Conchology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 467-468

  Kuźnik Kowalska, Elzbieta ^a   Pokryszko, Beata M ^b  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Discus; Land snails; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

DISCUS ROTUNDATUS; DISCUS RUDERATUS; ENDODONTIDAE; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 38349057291     PISSN: 00220019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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