Delimiting species in the hoplonemertean genus Tetrastemma (phylum Nemertea): Morphology is not concordant with phylogeny as evidenced from mtDNA sequences

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-212

  Strand, Malin ^a   Sundberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolutionary relationships; Phylogeography; Statistical parsimony

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

HOPLONEMERTEA; NEMERTEA; NEMERTEANS; TETRASTEMMA; TETRASTEMMA CANDIDUM; TETRASTEMMA MELANOCEPHALUM;

EID: 26844577140     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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