References

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Specht, A and Westheide, W. 1988. Intra- and interspecific ultrastructural character variation: the chaetation of the Microphthalmus listensis species group (Polychaeta, Hesionidae). Zoomorphology. (Berlin). 107, 371-376.

Westheide, W. 1967. Monographie der Gattungen Hesionides Friedrich und Microphthalmus Mecznikow (Polychaeta, Hesionidae). Ein Beitrag zur Organisation und Biologie psammobionter Polychaeten. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 61, 1-159.

Westheide, W. 1977. Phylogenetic Systematics of the genus Microphthalmus (Hesionidae) Together with a Description of M. hartmanae nov. sp. In Fauchald, K and Reish, DJ (eds). Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. Allan Hancock Press, Los Angeles, pp. 103-113.

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