The digestive mechanisms of an intertidal grazer, the sea urchin Parechinus angulosus
Echinoids are important grazers in the near-shore ecosystem and can significantly effect their ecology. The sea urchin Parechinus angulosus occurs inter- and subtidally along the southern African coast. Within this range it consumes an extremely wide variety of algae. Since algal cell walls have an...
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Rhodes University
1991
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005346 |