Diversity and disparity 'down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the 'marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia

Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-275

  Glaubrecht, Matthias ^a   Brinkmann, Nora ^b   Pöppe, Judith ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

(eu )viviparity; (ovo )viviparity; Colonization; Cryptic species; Drainage division; Endemism; Fluvifaunal provinces; Invasion; Marine intrusion; Veliger larvae

Indexed keywords

CAENOGASTROPODA; CERITHIOIDEA; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; METATHERIA; SPONDIAS PURPUREA; STENOMELANIA; THIARA; THIARA AMARULA; THIARIDAE;

EID: 79955111689     PISSN: 14351935     EISSN: 18600743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoos.200900004     Document Type: Article

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