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A new fossil subspecies of booby (Aves, Sulidae: Papasula) from Mauritius and Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands, with notes on P. abbotti from Assumption Island
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- 1. Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Akeman St, Tring, Herts HP23 6AP. United Kingdom. Corresponding author. j.hume@nhm.ac.uk; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5890-9696
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Hume, Julian P. (2023): A new fossil subspecies of booby (Aves, Sulidae: Papasula) from Mauritius and Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands, with notes on P. abbotti from Assumption Island. Zootaxa 5270 (3): 507-536, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.3.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5270.3.5
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