On the marine sister groups of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-38

  Von Sternberg, R ^a   Cumberlidge, N ^b   Rodriguez, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistic analysis; Eubrachyuran phylogeny; Freshwater crabs

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DECKENIIDAE; GECARCINIDAE; GECARCINUCIDAE; GRAPSIDAE; OCYPODOIDEA; PARATHELPHUSIDAE; PORTUNIDAE; PORTUNOIDEA; POTAMIDAE; POTAMONAUTIDAE; PSEUDOTHELPHUSIDAE; THORACOTREMATA; TRICHODACTYLIDAE;

EID: 0001975699     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0469.1999.95092.x     Document Type: Article

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