Insemination by a kiss? Interactive 3D-microanatomy, biology and systematics of the mesopsammic cephalaspidean sea slug Pluscula cuica Marcus, 1953 from Brazil (Gastropoda: Euopisthobranchia: Philinoglossidae)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-54

  Brenzinger, Bastian ^a,b   Padula, Vinicius ^a,b   Schrödl, Michael ^a,b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Interstitial; Meiofauna; Mollusca; Opisthobranch; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY; BURROW; GASTROPOD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGY; MEIOFAUNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BRAZIL;

BURSA (GASTROPOD); CEPHALASPIDEA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PHILINOGLOSSIDAE; PHILINOIDEA;

EID: 84873413333     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-012-0093-3     Document Type: Article

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