The Teuthoidea (Cephalopoda, Mollusca) fauna of the Aegean Sea: Comparison with the neighbouring seas and notes on their diet composition

Journal of Biological Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages 191-205

  Vafidis, Dimitris ^a   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^b   Chartosia, Niki ^c   Koukouras, Athanasios ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean sea; Diet composition; Distribution; Teuthoidea

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; COLEOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES;

EID: 65349121937     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 1790045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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