Biodiversity patterns in interstitial marine microturbellaria: A case study within the genus Parotoplana (Platyhelminthes: Rhabditophora) with the description of four new species

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 190-202

  Casu, Marco ^a   Scarpa, Fabio ^a   Delogu, Valentina ^a   Cossu, Piero ^a   Lai, Tiziana ^a   Sanna, Daria ^a   Curini Galletti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Microturbellarians; Molecular analysis; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; INTERSTITIAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

OTOPLANIDAE; PAROTOPLANA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PROSERIATA;

EID: 84903816116     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: 14390469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12058     Document Type: Article

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