Ecology and distribution of the freshwater planarian schmidtea mediterranea in tunisia

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 233-236

  Harrath, Abdel Halim ^a   Charni, Mohamed ^a   Sluys, Ronald ^b   Zghal, Fathia ^a   Tekaya, Saida ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distribution; Ecology; Freshwater planarian; Reproduction; Schmidtea mediterranea; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FLATWORM; FRESHWATER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 4043171022     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000409356577     Document Type: Article

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