Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Australia, with descriptions of five new species

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3595, 2012, Pages 35-60

  Timms, Brian V ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frontal appendage; Lock and key amplexus; North Queensland; Speciose genera; Tumidities; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871595907     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3595.1.2     Document Type: Article

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