A new genus and species of the deep-sea family coronarctidae (Tardigrada) from a submarine cave with a deep-sea like condition

Sarsia

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 277-283

  Villora Moreno, Santiago ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Coronarctidae; Deep sea; Marine; Mediterranean; Submarine cave; Trogloaretus trionyehes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040063379     PISSN: 00364827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00364827.1996.10413625     Document Type: Article

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