First report of the exotic blue land planarian, Caenoplana coerulea (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae), on Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)

ZooKeys

Volumn 199, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-105

  Breugelmans, Karin ^a   Cardona, Josep Quintana ^b   Artois, Tom ^c   Jordaens, Kurt ^d,e   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,e  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Balearic Islands; COI; Europe; Introduction; Molecular identification; Spain; Terrestrial flatworm

Indexed keywords

CAENOPLANA COERULEA; GEOPLANIDAE; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84863799363     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.199.3215     Document Type: Article

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