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Martensopsalis, a new genus of Neopilionidae from New Caledonia (Opiliones Eupnoi)

  • 1. Museum of Comparative Zoology & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA.
  • 2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. cmbaker6@wisc.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9782-4959
  • 3. 5 rue Alfred de Musset, 98800 Noumea, New Caledonia.

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Giribet, Gonzalo, Baker, Caitlin M., Brouste, Damien (2021): Martensopsalis, a new genus of Neopilionidae from New Caledonia (Opiliones Eupnoi). Zootaxa 4984 (1): 98-107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.9

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