A new genus of cyphophthalmid from the Iberian Peninsula with a phylogenetic analysis of the Sironidae (Arachnida:Opiliones:Cyphophthalmi) and a SEM database of external morphology

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-52

  De Bivort, Benjamin L ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Cladistic analysis; Iberosiro; Portugal; Sironidae

Indexed keywords

ARACHNID; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARACHNIDA; CYPHOPHTHALMI; INVERTEBRATA; OPILIONES; SIRONIDAE;

EID: 1842509063     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS03029     Document Type: Article

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