Liocheles litodactylus (Scorpiones: Liochelidae): An unsual new Liocheles species from the Australian Wet Tropics (Queensland)

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 675-690

  Monod, Lionel ^a   Volschenk, Erich S ^b  

^a MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endemic; Liocheles litodactylus; Liochelidae; Queensland; Scorpiones; Wet Tropics

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

LIOCHELES; LIOCHELIDAE; PHYTOBIUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 3943069013     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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