Unravelling evolutionary lineages among South African velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatopsis) provides evidence for widespread cryptic speciation

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 200-216

  Daniels, Savel R ^a   Picker, Mike D ^b   Cowlin, Ross M ^b   Hamer, Michelle L ^c  

^a Department of Botany and Zoology ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Endemism; Invertebrate taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CARNIVORE; CRYPSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

CLAVIGERA; INVERTEBRATA; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATOPSIS; PERIPATOPSIS CAPENSIS;

EID: 65249164078     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01205.x     Document Type: Article

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