What is it about?
We applied morphometric tools to evaluate body shape and reveal/test taxonomic characters in water mites.
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Why is it important?
The protocol we defined, can be applied to another organisms with similar systematic problems: a lot of species, few taxonomic characters proved useful and, controversies about their systematics.
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This page is a summary of: Geometric and traditional morphometrics for the assessment of character state identity: multivariate statistical analyses of character variation in the genusArrenurus(Acari, Hydrachnidia, Arrenuridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12384.
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