A revision of the tropical/temperate amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, and the description of a new Atlantic genus Verdeia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1424, 2007, Pages 1-62

  Lowry, J K ^a   Springthorpe, R T ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphipoda; Dulichiella; Melitidae; New genera; New species; Taxonomy; Verdeia

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; DULICHIELLA; DULICHIELLA APPENDICULATA; MELITA; MELITIDAE;

EID: 33947511250     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1424.1.1     Document Type: Review

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