Five new species of cotylean flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the wider Caribbean

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1650, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Marcela Bolanos D ^a   Quiroga, Sigmer Y ^a   Litvaitis, Marian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Color pattern; Cotylea; Maritigrella; Pseudobiceros; Pseudoceros; Systematics; Thysanozooon

Indexed keywords

COTYLEA; MARITIGRELLA; OLIGACANTHORHYNCHUS; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCLADIDA; PSEUDOCEROS; THYSANOZOON;

EID: 36949022925     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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