The feeding habits of Austrolethops wardi, a gobiid fish inhabiting burrows of the thalassinidean shrimp Neaxius acanthus

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 764-767

  Hung Liu, Ha Trieu ^a,b   Kneer, Dominik ^a   Asmus, Harald ^a   Ahnelt, Harald ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austrolethops wardi; feeding; Indonesia; seagrass; shrimp burrows

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRUSTACEAN; EPIPHYTE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; PERCIFORM; SEAGRASS; STOMACH CONTENT;

ASIA; BARRANG LOMPO; BONE BATANG; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTH SULAWESI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPERMONDE ARCHIPELAGO;

ANIMALIA; AUSTROLETHOPS; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GOBIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEAXIUS ACANTHUS; THALASSINIDEA;

EID: 50449099692     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.06.020     Document Type: Article

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