Composition of meiobenthonic Platyhelminthes from brackish environments of the Galician and Cantabrian coasts of Spain with the description of a new species of Djeziraia (Polycystididae, Kalyptorhynchia)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 41, Issue 29-32, 2007, Pages 1989-2005

  Noreña, Carolina ^a   Damborenea, Cristina ^b   Faubel, Anno ^c   Brusa, Francisco ^b,d  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNLP ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brackish habitats; Djeziraia; Funeral records; New species; Northern Spain; Platyhelminthes; Turbellaria

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOTONE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLATWORM; MEIOFAUNA; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; RIA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

CANTABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

KALYPTORHYNCHIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCYSTIDIDAE; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 35348979742     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930701526055     Document Type: Article

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