Integrative taxonomy allows the identification of synonymous species and the erection of a new genus of echiniscidae (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada)

Zootaxa

Volumn 3613, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 557-572

  Vicente, Filipe ^a,c   Fontoura, Paulo ^b   Cesari, Michele ^c   Rebecchi, Lorena ^c   Guidetti, Roberto ^c   Serrano, Artur ^a   Bertolani, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

18S; Diploechiniscus gen. nov.; Diploechiniscus oihonnae comb. nov.; DNA barcoding; Morphology; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TARDIGRADA;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TARDIGRADA;

ANIMALIA; ECHINISCIDAE; ECHINISCUS; ECHINISCUS MULTISPINOSUS; ECHINISCUS OIHONNAE; HETEROTARDIGRADA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84878708545     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.3     Document Type: Article

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