Oversized enchytraeids (annelida, clitellata): A comparative study, with a revised description of lumbricillus maximus (michaelsen)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-238

  Rota, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; CLITELLATA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; GRANIA; HENLEA; LUMBRICILLUS; MESENCHYTRAEUS; MESENCHYTRAEUS ANTAEUS;

EID: 0043184150     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00019     Document Type: Article

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