The importance of being integrative: a remarkable case of synonymy in the genus Viridiscus (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
Abstract There are two predominant sources of taxonomically useful morphological variability in the diverse tardigrade family Echiniscidae: the internal structure and surface sculpture of the cuticular plates covering the dorsum (sculpturing) and the arrangement and morphology of the trunk appendage...
Main Authors: | Piotr Gąsiorek, Katarzyna Vončina, Diane R. Nelson, Łukasz Michalczyk |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-11-01
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Series: | Zoological Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-021-00181-z |
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