A phylogenetic approach to species delimitation in freshwater Gastrotricha from Sweden

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 683, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-202

  Kånneby, Tobias ^a   Todaro, M Antonio ^b   Jondelius, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chaetonotidae; Freshwater fauna; New species; Phylogeny; Taxonomic revisions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

SWEDEN;

CHAETONOTIDAE; GASTROTRICHA; HETEROLEPIDODERMA OCELLATUM; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDODERMELLA; LEPIDODERMELLA SQUAMATUM; LEPIDODERMELLA ZELINKAI;

EID: 84856379860     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0956-1     Document Type: Article

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