Previously undocumented diversity and abundance of cryptic species: A phylogenetic analysis of Indo-Pacific Arminidae Rafinesque, 1814 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with descriptions of 20 new species of Dermatobranchus

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-356

  Gosliner, Terrence M ^a   Fahey, Shireen J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arminina; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Indo Pacific; Systematics; Trophic diversification

Indexed keywords

ARMINA; ARMINIDAE; ARMININA; BERTHELLA; DERMATOBRANCHUS; DORIDINA; MOLLUSCA; NUDIBRANCHIA; PHYLLODES; TUBERCULATUS;

EID: 78751629087     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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