Life Histories and Breeding Patterns of Three Intertidal Sand Beach Isopods
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- 28 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Marine Ecology
- Vol. 12 (2) , 105-121
Abstract
Three‐weekly transects were done over a 14‐month period at Sundays River Beach, a high energy beach in Algoa Bay, South Africa, to determine the life histories, breeding patterns, and fecundities of three intertidal cirolanid isopods. Eurydice longicornis. Pontogeloides latipes, and Excirolana naialensis. E. longicornis exhibits an annual, multivoltine life history with a more extended breeding period than the other two species. P. latipes and E. natalensis both have biennial. univoltine life histories with lower fecundities than E. longicornis.Keywords
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