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A new species of Achelia (Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae) and first records of intertidal sea spiders found on Zoanthus (Cnidaria: Zoantharia) from Karachi Pakistan

  • 1. Center of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan.
  • 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas-Zoologia, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia/CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. & Laboratório de Invertebrados Paulo Young, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia/CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.

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George, Zarish, Siddiqui, Ghazala, George, Nazish, Lucena, Rudá Amorim (2020): A new species of Achelia (Pycnogonida: Ammotheidae) and first records of intertidal sea spiders found on Zoanthus (Cnidaria: Zoantharia) from Karachi Pakistan. Zootaxa 4821 (2): 371-393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.2.9

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