Putting in shape: towards a unified approach for the taxonomic description of monogenean haptoral hard parts.

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Among monogeneans, haptoral hard parts provide prominent morphological characters upon which identifications are largely based. Traditionally, morphometric approaches are based on the use of arbitrary collections of linear distance measurements between landmarks. An exhaustive review of the specific diagnoses published in the journal Systematic Parasitology highlights the fact that an intricately important number...

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