Archives of a small planet: The significance of museum collections and museum-based research in invertebrate taxonomy

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1668, 2007, Pages 47-54

  Winston, Judith E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Systematics funding; Value of natural history collections

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

EID: 38349101627     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.6     Document Type: Review

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