Morphological and genetic analyses suggest that southern African crown crabs, Hymenosoma orbiculare, represent five distinct species

Crustaceana

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 667-683

  Edkins, M T ^a   Teske, P R ^b   Papadopoulos, I ^b,c   Griffiths, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRAB; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; ORNAMENTATION; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 34547859656     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854007781360694     Document Type: Article

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