Deep water parapagurid hermit crabs: their distribution, abundance, population structure and associations in the Southern Benguela

The parapagurids Sympagurus dimorphus (Studer, 1883) and Parapagurus bouvieri (Stebbing, 1910) dominate South African deeper-water benthic invertebrate communities. Samples from the 2016 DAFF bi-annual hake demersal research trawl surveys provided data on population structure and morphology. Since t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Amy Grace
Other Authors: Griffiths, Charles L
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25650