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Ray spider rush: Fast-tracking integrative taxonomy in Panama's cloud forests
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- 1. Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva (DEBE), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), campus São Carlos, Rodovia Washington Luís, km 235, CEP 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil. & División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2. División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 3. Department of Biodiversity and Conservation, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA, Balearic Islands, Spain.
- 4. Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
- 5. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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Labarque, Facundo M., Piacentini, Luis N., Pons, Joan, Hormiga, Gustavo, Arnedo, Miquel A., Ramírez, Martín J. (2025): Ray spider rush: Fast-tracking integrative taxonomy in Panama's cloud forests. European Journal of Taxonomy 1010: 1-145, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1010.3021, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3021/13549
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