Conservation priorities for forest-floor invertebrates of the southeastern half of Madagascar: Evidence from two land-snail clades

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 729-741

  Emberton, Kenneth C ^a  

^a Molluscan Biodiversity Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

indicator target taxa; land snails; Mollusca Gastropoda Cyclophoridae Charopidae; museum preservation; tropical biodiversity and endemism

Indexed keywords

LEAF LITTER; TROPICAL FOREST;

MADAGASCAR;

CHAROPIDAE; CYCLOPHORIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 0030304710     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051783     Document Type: Article

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