Pachybolini - A tribe of giant Afrotropical millipedes: Arguments for monophyly and the description of a new genus from Madagascar (Diplopoda:Spirobolida:Pachybolidae)

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-53

  Wesener, Thomas ^a   Enghoff, Henrik ^b   Wägele, Johann Wolfgang ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Madabolus; Morphology; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; ARTHROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

DIPLOPODA; INCISURA; PACHYBOLIDAE; SPIROBOLIDA;

EID: 40949152910     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS07008     Document Type: Article

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