Ammonicera in Florida: Notes on the smallest living gastropod in the United States and comments on other species of omalogyridae (heterobranchia)

Nautilus

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Bieler, Rüdiger ^a   Mikkelsen, Paula M ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonicera; Atlantic Ocean; Florida Keys; Gastropoda; Lower Heterobranchia; Omalogyra; Omalogyroidea; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038929411     PISSN: 00281344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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