A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism

Cladistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 545-573

  Wesener, Thomas ^a,c   Vandenspiegel, Didier ^b  

^a Museum Koenig Leibniz Institute for Research in Terrestrial Biodiversity   (Germany)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; INSECT; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ASIA;

DIPLOPODA; PROCYLIOSOMA; SPHAEROTHERIIDA; SPHAEROTHERIIDAE;

EID: 70350439629     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x     Document Type: Review

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