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A new species of freshwater Chaetonotidae (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from Obodska Cave (Montenegro) based on morphological and molecular characters

  • 1. Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland. & Corresponding author: kolicka@amu.edu.pl
  • 2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland. & E-mail: gadawski@biol.uni.lodz.pl
  • 3. Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland. & E-mail: mirkad@amu.edu.pl

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Kolicka, Małgorzata, Gadawski, Piotr, Dabert, Miroslawa (2017): A new species of freshwater Chaetonotidae (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from Obodska Cave (Montenegro) based on morphological and molecular characters. European Journal of Taxonomy 354: 1-30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.354

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