A new genus and species of bothriurid scorpion from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia, with a reanalysis of bothriurid phylogeny and a discussion of the phylogenetic position of Lisposoma Lawrence

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-172

  Prendini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS;

NAMIBIA;

BOTHRIURIDAE; BOTHRIURUS; BRACHISTOSTERNUS; BRANDBERGIA HARINGTONI; CENTROMACHETES; CERCOPHONIUS; INVERTEBRATA; LISPOSOMA; OROBOTHRIURUS; PHONIOCERCUS; SCORPIONES; SCORPIONOIDEA; TEHUANKEA; THESTYLUS; TIMOGENES; UROPHONIUS; VACHONIA;

EID: 0037398163     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2003.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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