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When Ontogeny Matters: A New Japanese Species of Brittle Star Illustrates the Importance of Considering both Adult and Juvenile Characters in Taxonomic Practice

Current taxonomy offers numerous approaches and methods for species delimitation and description. However, most of them are based on the adult characters and rarely suggest a dynamic representation of developmental transformations of taxonomically important features. Here we show how the underestima...

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Autores principales: Martynov, Alexander, Ishida, Yoshiaki, Irimura, Seiichi, Tajiri, Rie, O’Hara, Timothy, Fujita, Toshihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4625035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139463