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The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae

  • 1. Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2. Biodiversity Unit, Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Finland
  • 3. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113, Bonn, Germany. twesener@uni-bonn.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2028-3541
  • 4. Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia sgolovatch@yandex.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-5484

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Short, Megan, Vahtera, Varpu, Wesener, Thomas, Golovatch, Sergei I. (2020): The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. Zootaxa 4772 (2): 306-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4

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