Evolutionary history and drivers of diversification of the Mediterranean Nemesiidae spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) = Història evolutiva i mecanismes de diversificació en aranyes mediterrànies de la familia Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) = Historia evolutiva y mecanismos de diversificación en arañas mediterráneas de la familia Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

• Main Author: Mora de Checa, Elisa
• Other Authors: Arnedo Lombarte, Miquel Àngel, Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2015
• Subjects: Aranyes; Evolució (Biologia); Mediterrània (Regió); Spiders; Evolution (Biology); Mediterranean Region; Burrows; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/99480; http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385617

[eng] Mygalomorphs is a cosmopolitan group that inhabits all the continents except Antarctica. The group and has been commonly described as ‘primitive’ because of the retention of plesiomorphic characters, such as the presence of four book lungs and chelicerae bearing longitudinal fangs with unsynch...