A proposal for accepting Pontastacus as a genus of European crayfish within the family Astacidae based on a revision of the west and east European taxonomic literature

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 5: Water Pollution

Volumn , Issue 380-381, 2006, Pages 1041-1052

  Smietana P ^a   Schulz, H K ^b   Keszka, S ^a   Schulz, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astacidae; Astacus; Austropotamobius; Morphology; Pontastacus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ASTACIDAE; ASTACOIDEA; ASTACUS; AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS; LEPTODACTYLUS; PONTASTACUS; PONTASTACUS LEPTODACTYLUS;

EID: 77957991544     PISSN: 14336863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1051/kmae:2006010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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