Feeding biology of carnivore and detritivore Mediterranean pycnogonids
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Pycnogonids
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0025-3154,1469-7769
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315411001287