Mystery tubes coiled around deep-water tropical gorgonians: Fecampiid cocoons (Platyhelminthes: Fecampiida) resembling Solenogastres (Mollusca)

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-85

  Handl, Claudia ^a   Bouchet, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY; TURBELLARIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TURBELLARIA;

APLACOPHORA; FECAMPIIDAE; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; MOLLUSCA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 34248329109     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-006-9077-z     Document Type: Article

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