The tanaid Hexapleomera robusta (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Caribbean manatee, with comments on other crustacean epibionts

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 591-596

  Morales Vela, Benjamín ^a   Suárez Morales, Eduardo ^a   Padilla Saldívar, Janneth ^a   Heard, Richard W ^b  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic vertebrates; Crustaceans; Mammals; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BAY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMENSAL; CRUSTACEAN; EPIBIONT; LESION; NEW RECORD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SIRENIAN; TAGGING; TURTLE;

ASCENSION BAY; CHETUMAL BAY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; QUINTANA ROO;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPHILUS; CHELONIIDAE; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; HARPACTICOIDA; HEXAPLEOMERA ROBUSTA; MAMMALIA; PERACARIDA; TANAIDACEA; TANAIDAE; TESTUDINES; THORACICA; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS MANATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43649107093     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408000672     Document Type: Article

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