Myoretronectes paranaensis n. gen. et sp., a new freshwater genus of the family Retronectidae (Turbellaria, Catenulida) from the Paraná, Argentina

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-118

  Norena Janssen C ^a   Faubel, A ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argentina; Ecology; Morphology; Myoretronectes; Paran river; Retronectidae; Taxonomy; Turbellaria

Indexed keywords

MYORETRONECTES PARANAENSIS;

EID: 0029852716     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00019999     Document Type: Article

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