Uncharted biodiversity in the marine benthos: the void of the smallish with description of ten new Platyhelminth taxa from the well-studied North Sea
Abstract Most of our planet’s biodiversity is still unknown, particularly in the sea. Although around the island of Sylt in the North Sea, the small zoobenthos (meiofauna) has been studied intensively since the 1950s, repeating previous surveys revealed an unexpected wealth of new species in additio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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Series: | Helgoland Marine Research |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10152-018-0520-8 |