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New insights into the evolution and biogeography of freshwater planarians on islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean Basin, with the integrative description of a new endemic species from Corsica (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesia)

  • 1. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  • 2. Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Via Vienna 2, University of Sassari, Sassari I-07100, Italy
  • 3. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  • 4. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

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Dols-Serrate, Daniel, Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, Nuin-Villabona, Paula, Sluys, Ronald, Riutort, Marta (2024): New insights into the evolution and biogeography of freshwater planarians on islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean Basin, with the integrative description of a new endemic species from Corsica (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201 (4): 1-16, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae080, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae080

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