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A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) and a new record of A. muricola from methane seeps on the Blake Ridge Diapir, Northwestern Atlantic

  • 1. Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8682 Japan; komai@chiba-muse.or.jp Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U.S.A. Biology Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, U.S.A.

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Komai, T., Shank, T. M., Van Dover, C. L. (2005): A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) and a new record of A. muricola from methane seeps on the Blake Ridge Diapir, Northwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa 1019 (1): 27-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1019.1.2, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1019.1.2

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