A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): Taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-67

  Balke, Michael ^a   Watts, Chris H S ^b   Cooper, Steven J B ^b   Humphreys, William F ^c   Vogler, Alfried P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLADISTICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

COLEOPTERA; COPELATINAE; COPELATUS; COPELATUS ABDITUS; DYTISCIDAE; HYDROPORINAE; HYGROBIIDAE; PAPUADYTES;

EID: 2942602161     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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