The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the south Aegean Archipelago (Greece, Eastern Mediterranean)

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 241-307

  Simaiakis, Stylianos ^a   Minelli, Alessandro ^b   Mylonas, Moysis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEW RECORD; TAXONOMY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CHILOPODA; GEOPHILOMORPHA; HENIA VESUVIANA; LITHOBIOMORPHA; LITHOBIUS; SCUTIGEROMORPHA;

EID: 33747876141     PISSN: 00212210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/43YF-Y0JL-J13P-4520     Document Type: Article

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