Reassessment of morphological diagnostic characters and species boundaries requires taxonomical changes for the Genus Orthopyxis L. Agassiz, 1862 (Campanulariidae, Hydrozoa) and some related Campanulariids

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Cunha, Amanda F ^a   Genzano, Gabriel N ^b   Marques, Antonio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Univ Nacional de Mar del Plata Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMPANULARIID; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROZOA; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MONOPHYLY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPYXIS; ORTHOPYXIS CALICULATA; ORTHOPYXIS MIANZANI; ORTHOPYXIS SARGASSICOLA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE;

CAMPANULARIA; CAMPANULARIIDAE; HYDROZOA; ORTHOPYXIS; ORTHOPYXIS CRENATA; ORTHOPYXIS INTEGRA; ORTHOPYXIS SARGASSICOLA;

SPACER DNA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HYDROZOA; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84923810285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117553     Document Type: Article

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