Free-living marine polychaetes (Annelida) inhabiting hard-bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-157

  Gobin, Judith F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Abundance; Caribbean; Colonization; Diversity; Polychaeta; Rocky substrate

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANNELIDA; EXOGONE DISPAR; POLYCHAETA; PSEUDOVERMILIA OCCIDENTALIS; SERPULIDAE; SYLLIDAE;

EID: 76349085200     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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