Phylogenetics and biogeography of the Balkan 'sand gobies' (Teleostei: Gobiidae): Vulnerable species in need of taxonomic revision

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-91

  Vanhove, Maarten P M ^a   Economou, Alcibiades N ^b   Zogaris, Stamatis ^b   Larmuseau, Maarten H D ^a,c   Giakoumi, Sofia ^b   Kalogianni, Eleni ^b   Volckaert, Filip A M ^a   Huyse, Tine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Economidichthys ichthyology Knipowitschia Mediterranean Pomatoschistus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT LOSS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PERCIFORM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALKANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 83155182572     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01781.x     Document Type: Article

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