A phylogenetic assessment of the branchiobdellidan family Branchiobdellidae (Annelida, Clitellata) using spermatological and somatic characters

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 347-366

  Cardini, Andrea ^a   Ferraguti, Marco ^a   Gelder, Stuart R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOBDELLIDAE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANKYRODRILUS; ANKYRODRILUS LEGAEUS; ANNELIDA; BRANCHIOBDELLA; BRANCHIOBDELLIDAE; CIRRODRILUS; CLITELLATA; XIRONODRILUS; XIRONODRILUS FORMOSUS; XIRONOGITON; XIRONOGITON VICTORIENSIS;

EID: 0033662948     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2000.00043.x     Document Type: Article

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