Relationships of the haematophagous marine snail Colubraria (Rachiglossa: Colubrariidae), within the neogastropod phylogenetic framework

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 779-800

  Oliverio, Marco ^a   Modica, Maria Vittoria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Buccinoidea; Cancellarioidea; Conoidea; Maximum Likelihood; Muricoidea; Neogastropoda; Phylogeny; Radula; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BUCCINOIDEA; CANCELLARIIDAE; CANCELLARIOIDEA; COLUBRARIA; CONOIDEA; GASTROPODA; MURICOIDEA; NEOGASTROPODA;

EID: 77952910009     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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