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Systematic Revision Of The North American Syntropine Vaejovid Scorpion Genera Balsateres, Kuarapu, And Thorellius, With Descriptions Of Three New Species

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  • 1. City University of New York; Scorpion Systematics Research Group, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History; Current address: Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Mexico City
  • 2. Scorpion Systematics Research Group, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History

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González-Santillán, Edmundo, Prendini, Lorenzo (2018): Systematic Revision Of The North American Syntropine Vaejovid Scorpion Genera Balsateres, Kuarapu, And Thorellius, With Descriptions Of Three New Species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (420): 1, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-420.1.1, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/0003-0090-420.1.1

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