Reverse taxonomy applied to the Brachionus calyciflorus cryptic species complex: Morphometric analysis confirms species delimitations revealed by molecular phylogenetic analysis and allows the (re)description of four species

• Evangelia Michaloudi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tholi@bio.auth.gr

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Τhessaloniki, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-2865

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• Spiros Papakostas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Georgia Stamou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Τhessaloniki, Greece

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• Vilém Neděla,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy Of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Eva Tihlaříková,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy Of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Wei Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Steven A. J. Declerck

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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