A new species of Olavius (tubificidae) from the algarve coast in Portugal, the first East Atlantic gutless oligochaete with symbiotic bacteria

Zoologischer Anzeiger

Volumn 237, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 209-214

  Giere, Olav ^a   Erséus, Christer ^b   Stuhlmacher, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal bacteria symbioses; Distribution; Taxonomy; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OLAVIUS; OLAVIUS ALGARVENSIS; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0012029495     PISSN: 00445231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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