The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida, Araneae, Araneoidea): A relimitation and revision at the generic level

ZooKeys

Volumn 36, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 3, 2010, Pages 1-321

  Rix, Michael G ^a,b   Harvey, Mark S ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Caves; Cladistics; Conservation; Endemism; Gondwana; New species; Parsimony analysis; Phylogeny; Systematics; Taxonomy; Temperate rainforest; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ADUSTA; ANTIPODA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ARANEOIDEA; EXCAVATA;

EID: 77951084991     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306     Document Type: Article

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