Molecular and morphological discrimination between the pulmonate land snails Zonitoides nitidus and Z. excavatus

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-300

  Jordaens, Kurt ^a   Van Riel, Patrick ^b   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SNAIL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; UMBILICUS; ZONITIDAE; ZONITOIDES; ZONITOIDES EXCAVATUS; ZONITOIDES NITIDUS;

EID: 0346104941     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/69.4.295     Document Type: Article

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