Habitat use, feeding and reproductive traits of rocky-shore intertidal mites from Bermuda (Oribatida: Fortuyniidae and Selenoribatidae

Acarologia

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 369-382

  Pfingstl, Tobias ^a,b  

^a BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Exochorion; Fortuyniidae; Selenoribatidae; Spermatophores

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891418394     PISSN: 0044586X     EISSN: 21077207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20132101     Document Type: Article

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