Undersized and underestimated: 3D visualization of the Mediterranean interstitial acochlidian gastropod Pontohedyle milaschewitchii (Kowalevsky, 1901)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-214

  Jörger, Katharina M ^a,b   Neusser, Timea P ^a,b   Haszprunar, Gerhard ^a,b   Schrödl, Michael ^a,b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Anatomy; Gastropoda; Histology; Mollusca; Opisthobranchia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; GASTROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PONTOHEDYLE;

EID: 48449083721     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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