Computer-based 3D anatomical reconstruction and systematic placement of the mesopsammic gastropod Platyhedyle denudata Salvini-Plawen, 1973 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 358-367

  Rückert, Ina Maria ^a   Altnöder, Andreas ^b   Schrödl, Michael ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMIRA; Histology; Marine interstitial; Mollusca; Morphology; Systematics

Indexed keywords

DELLA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; SACOGLOSSA;

EID: 74849139018     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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