Occurrence of the alien species Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans (Sipuncula) on the levantine and aegean coasts of Turkey

Turkish Journal of Zoology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-448

  Açik, Şermin ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Alien species; Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans; Easterrn Mediterranean; Lessepsian; Levantine Sea; Sipuncula

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083500     PISSN: 13000179     EISSN: 13036114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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