Shelter association between the hermit crab Sympagurus dimorphus and the zoanthid Epizoanthus paguricola in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-149

  Schejter, Laura ^a   Mantelatto, Fernando L ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anomura; Argentina; Parapaguridae; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COLONY; CRAB; GASTROPOD; MORPHOMETRY; SHELL; SHELTER; SYMBIOSIS;

ARGENTINE SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

ANOMURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPIZOANTHIDAE; EPIZOANTHUS; GASTROPODA; NATICIDAE; PARAPAGURIDAE; SYMPAGURUS; ZOANTHIDAE; ZOANTHIDEA;

EID: 79952597922     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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