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A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)

  • 1. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-1878
  • 2. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9221-2673
  • 3. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2169-5628 Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
  • 4. School of Information, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
  • 5. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin 78705, USA.
  • 6. Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.

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Wu, Shi-Yang, Zhu, Xiao-Yu, Liu, Yi-Jiao, Miranda, Gustavo Silva, Román-Palacios, Cristian, Li, Zheng, He, Zhu-Qing (2022): A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 5162 (4): 397-409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.4

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