Biodiversity and community structure of freeliving marine nematodes from the Larsemann Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

Current Science

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1413-1419

  Ingole, Baban ^a   Singh, Ravail ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

East Antarctica; Larsemann Ice Shelf; Nematodes; Paralinhomoeus sp.; Sabatieria sp.; Subtidal meiofauna

Indexed keywords

NEMATODA; PARALINHOMOEUS; SABATIERIA;

EID: 78650016372     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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