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Tardigrades from Peru (South America), with descriptions of three new species of Parachela

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Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Cytan, Joanna, Zawierucha, Krzysztof, Diduszko, Dawid, Michalczyk, Łukasz (2014): Tardigrades from Peru (South America), with descriptions of three new species of Parachela. Zootaxa 3790 (2): 357-379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.5

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