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Combining morphological and mitochondrial DNA data to describe a new species of Austroniscus Vanhöffen, 1914 (Isopoda, Janiroidea, Nannoniscidae) linking abyssal and hadal depths of the Puerto Rico Trench
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- 1. University of Łódź, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Banacha St. 12/16, Łódź, 90-237, Poland. ssm.kaiser@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-4663 & Senckenberg Research Institute, Department of Marine Zoology, Section Crustacea, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany (present address)
- 2. Museum of Nature, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Bente@stransky.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6411-2592 & German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- 3. Temple University, Biology Department, 1900 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
- 4. Integrated Environmental Solutions UG-INES, c/o DZMB, Südstrand 44, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany terue.kihara@ines-solutions.eu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-251X
- 5. German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany & saskia.brix-elsig@senckenberg.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3269-8904
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Kaiser, Stefanie, Stransky, Bente, Jennings, Robert M., Kihara, Terue Cristina, Brix, Saskia (2023): Combining morphological and mitochondrial DNA data to describe a new species of Austroniscus Vanhöffen, 1914 (Isopoda, Janiroidea, Nannoniscidae) linking abyssal and hadal depths of the Puerto Rico Trench. Zootaxa 5293 (3): 401-434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.1
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