A new dimension in documenting new species: High-detail imaging for myriapod taxonomy and first 3D cybertype of a new millipede species (diplopoda, julida, julidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Akkari, Nesrine ^a   Enghoff, Henrik ^b   Metscher, Brian D ^c  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MILLIPEDE; NONHUMAN; OMMATOIULUS AVATAR; REVIEW; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CLASSIFICATION; DOCUMENTATION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DOCUMENTATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84942845776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135243     Document Type: Review

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