Freshwater prawns of the genus macrobrachium (decapoda, palaemonidae) with abbreviated development from the papaloapan river basin, Veracruz, Mexico: Distribution and new species

Crustaceana

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 949-973

  Mejía Ortíz, Luis M ^a   López Mejía, Marilú ^a  

^a Universidad de Quintana Roo Cozumel   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CRUSTACEAN; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PIGMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RIVER BASIN; STREAMWATER; TAXONOMY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PAPALOAPAN BASIN; VERACRUZ;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM; MACROBRACHIUM TOTONACUM; MACROBRACHIUM VILLALOBOSI; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 84864062081     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/001121611X579754     Document Type: Article

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