The Chironomidae (Diptera) larvae of Atherton Tableland Lakes, north Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 573-588

  Cranston, Peter S ^a   Dimitriadis, Sophia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atherton Tableland; Chironomidae; Larvae; North Queensland

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; LAKE; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

ATHERTON TABLELAND; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMINAE; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOCLADIINAE; PARAKIEFFERIELLA; TANYPODINAE;

EID: 3943084054     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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