Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-335

  Álvarez Padilla, Fernando ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Phylogenetics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ARANEOIDEA; LEUCAUGE; ORBICULARIA; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 35148823207     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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