The presence of the Indo-Pacific symbiont-bearing foraminifer Amphistegina lobifera in Greek coastal ecosystems (Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean)

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-86

  Triantaphyllou, M V ^a   Koukousioura, O ^a   Dimiza, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Amphistegina lobifera; Benthic foraminifers; Greece; Lessepsian immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955960331     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.111     Document Type: Article

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