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Troubled giants: The updated conservation status of the coconut crab (Birgus latro)

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Cumberlidge, Neil, Caro, Tim, Watson-Zink, Victoria M., Naruse, Tohru, Ng, Peter K. L., Orchard, Max, Rahayu, Dwi L., Wowor, Daisy, Yeo, Darren C. J., White, Tim (2022): Troubled giants: The updated conservation status of the coconut crab (Birgus latro). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70: 1-21, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0001

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