Sipunculan phylogeny based on six genes, with a new classification and the descriptions of two new families

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 186-210

  Kawauchi, Gisele Y ^a   Sharma, Prashant P ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIDOSIPHON; ASPIDOSIPHONIDAE; GOLFINGIIDAE; LITHACROSIPHON; PHASCOLIONIDAE; PHASCOLOPSIS; SIPUNCULA; SIPUNCULIDAE; THEMISTIDAE;

EID: 84857141709     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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