Spiders

Invertebrate Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-168

  Pizzi, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Araneomorphs; Opisthosoma; Sicariidae; Theraphosidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845799277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470344606.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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