Description of a new Tityus species (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Sierra de Portuguese, western Venezuela, based on morphological and mitochondrial DNA evidence

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1107, 2006, Pages 49-68

  Borges, Adolfo ^a   De Sousa, Leonardo ^b   Manzanilla, Jesús ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buthidae; Cytochrome oxidase subunit I; Mass spectrometry; New species; Portuguesa Range; Scorpiones; Tityus; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

BUTHIDAE; SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS BOCONOENSIS; TITYUS DISCREPANS;

EID: 33745240019     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1107.1.2     Document Type: Article

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