A new species of Glochinema (Epsilonematidae: Nematoda) from the oxygen minimum zone off Baja California, NE Pacific and phylogenetic relationships at species level within the family

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-126

  Neira, Carols ^a   Decraemer, Wilfrida ^b,c   Backeljau, Thierry ^b,d  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Baja California margin; Deep sea; Eastern Pacific Ocean; Epsilonematidae; Glochinema spinithorni sp. nov.; Nematoda; Oxygen minimum zone; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENY;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EPSILONEMATIDAE; METEPSILONEMA; NEMATODA;

EID: 22744457127     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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