Notes and news: Land crabs (decapoda, brachyura, gecarcinidae) on isabel Island, Mexico, including a new record, and its relation to the removal of invasive rats

Crustaceana

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1007-1011

  Samaniego Herrera, Araceli ^a,b   Bedolla Guzmán, Yuliana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Avenida Moctezuma 836 Zona Centro   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; INVASIVE SPECIES; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; RODENT;

ISLA ISABEL NATIONAL PARK; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NAYARIT;

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; RATTUS;

EID: 84876539444     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854012X650188     Document Type: Article

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