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Aquatic Coleoptera from Pakistan: faunistic and zoogeographical contribution (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Dytiscidae: Hydrophilidae)

  • 1. Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Biology, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey;
  • 2. Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

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Darilmaz, Mustafa C., Ahmed, Zubair (2015): Aquatic Coleoptera from Pakistan: faunistic and zoogeographical contribution (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Dytiscidae: Hydrophilidae). Journal of Natural History 50: 149-162, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059515, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059515

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