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Description of a new genus of Chromodorididae with a taxonomic review of Neptunazurea kempfi (Ev. Marcus, 1971) comb. nov. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)

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  • 1. Department of Invertebrates, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, 875, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20941-160, Brazil & Institute of Biosciences IBIO, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO, Av. Pasteur 458, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-255, RJ, Brazil
  • 2. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
  • 3. Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768, USA
  • 4. SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Section Mollusca, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 Munich, Germany & Biozentrum Ludwig Maximilians University and GeoBio-Center LMU Munich, Germany
  • 5. Department of Invertebrates, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, 875, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20941-160, Brazil

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Ribeiro, Antônia, García-Méndez, Kimberly, Valdés, Ángel, Schrödl, Michael, Padula, Vinicius (2025): Description of a new genus of Chromodorididae with a taxonomic review of Neptunazurea kempfi (Ev. Marcus, 1971) comb. nov. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Zootaxa 5716 (3): 333-348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.3.2

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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313748
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urn:lsid:plazi.org:pub:FF9EFFADFFD17C38F656B17CE862A549
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http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9EFFADFFD17C38F656B17CE862A549

Cites
Publication: 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.1 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1038/065079c0 (DOI)
Publication: 10.5962/bhl.title.41460 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/nar/gkh340 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00586.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033479 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts199 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.008 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1080/01650527609360494 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.019 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/molbev/msn083 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/sysbio/syy032 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/sysbio/sys029 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1973.tb01880.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb02182.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb01174.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/mollus/57.Supplement_Part_4.5 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl446 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1080/10635150701472164 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1093/molbev/msab120 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00310.x (DOI)
Has part
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.18259262 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787D5FFD57C3DF6C1B664E88FA670 (URL)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.17889423 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787D5FFD47C32F6C1B2F7EA6AA258 (URL)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF71664BFFD37C3AF6C1B25CE905A615 (URL)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.17889421 (DOI)
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Dataset: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/8c10bd87-4a53-4a33-8cd0-c4845aaad7e4 (URL)

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