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The genus Afrocymbella (Bacillariophyceae) from lakes Malawi and Tanganyika, with description of new fossil and extant species
- 1. Indiana State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A. & jeffery.stone@indstate.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1313-0643
- 2. Indiana State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A. & mwilson108@sycamores.indstate.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2852-125X
- 3. Senckenberg Research Institute, Department of Paleoanthropology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany & jovanovska.eci@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3413-3683
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Stone, Jeffery R., Wilson, Mallory C., Jovanovska, Elena (2022): The genus Afrocymbella (Bacillariophyceae) from lakes Malawi and Tanganyika, with description of new fossil and extant species. Phytotaxa 556 (1): 21-48, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.556.1.3
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