Relative growth and size at sexual maturity in Halicarcinus cookii (Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae): why are some crabs precocious moulters?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 743-752

  McLay, Colin L ^a   Van Den Brink, Anneke M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abdomen width; Allometry; Cheliped size; Maturation; Number of instars; Pubertal moult; Relative growth

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOME RANGE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MATURATION; MOLT; SEXUAL MATURITY; SIZE EFFECT;

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ELAMENOPSIS LINEATA; HYMENOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 69749106859     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409000022     Document Type: Article

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