Macrosymbiotic association of the myid bivalve Cryptomya with thalassinidean shrimps: Examples from modern and Pleistocene tidal flats of Japan

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 100-104

  Nara, Masakazu ^a   Akiyama, Hirotsugu ^b   Itani, Gyo ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptomya; Japan; Macrosymbiosis; Pleistocene; Recent; Thalassinidean shrimps

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CRUSTACEAN; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SYMBIOSIS; TIDAL FLAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

BIVALVIA; CRYPTOMYA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYIDAE; NIHONOTRYPAEA JAPONICA; PSILONICHNUS; THALASSINIDEA; UPOGEBIA; UPOGEBIIDAE;

EID: 41549112499     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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