New montane, subterranean congeners of a littoral millipede, genus Thalassisobates (Diplopoda: Julida: Nemasomatidae)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 47, Issue 23-24, 2013, Pages 1613-1625

  Enghoff, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Almer a; Canary Islands; cave; littoral; mesovoid shallow stratum

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAVE; GENE; HABITAT; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; NEW SPECIES;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; CANARY ISLANDS; GOMERA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN;

ARTHROPODA; DIPLOPODA; JULIDA; NEMASOMATIDAE; THALASSISOBATES; THALASSISOBATES LITTORALIS;

EID: 84878489555     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.759289     Document Type: Article

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