An integrative approach to the taxonomy of the pigmented European pseudomonocelis meixner, 1943 (Platyhelminthes: Proseriata)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 907-922

  Casu, Marco ^a   Lai, Tiziana ^a   Sanna, Daria ^a   Cossu, Piero ^a   Curini Galletti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cryptic species; Meiofauna; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CRYPSIS; DISPERSAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEIOFAUNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

PLATYHELMINTHES; PROSERIATA; PSEUDOMONOCELIS; PSEUDOMONOCELIS CETINAE; PSEUDOMONOCELIS OPHIOCEPHALA;

EID: 70450270605     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01316.x     Document Type: Article

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