Associated fauna of the fan shell Pinna nobilis (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the northern and eastern Tunisian coasts

Scientia Marina

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-141

  Rabaoui, Lotfi ^a   Tlig Zouari, Sabiha ^a   Cosentino, Andrea ^b   Ben Hassine, Oum Kalthoum ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

diversity; Assemblages; Epifauna; Pinna nobilis; Spatial scale; Tunisian coasts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTOPE; BIVALVE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DETECTION METHOD; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EPIFAUNA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SESSILE SPECIES; SHELL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; PINNA (BIVALVE); PINNA NOBILIS;

EID: 67649550206     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2009.73n1129     Document Type: Article

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