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Semilunar hatching periodicity in the mud fiddler crabUca pugnax (Smith)

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  1. Diana E. Wheeler

    Present address: Department of Zoology, Duke University, 27706, Durham, North Carolina

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Wheeler, D.E. Semilunar hatching periodicity in the mud fiddler crabUca pugnax (Smith). Estuaries 1, 268–269 (1978). https://doi.org/10.2307/1351533

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