The geographic structure of morphological variation in eight species of fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae: Genus Uca) from the eastern United States and Mexico

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 248-270

  Hopkins, Melanie J ^a   Thurman, Carl L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Geometric morphometrics; Intraspecific; Range size; Variation

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CRAB; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOMETRY; NATURAL BARRIER; OCEANIC CURRENT; RANGE SIZE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF COAST [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 77952922395     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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