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Monsters in the dark: systematics and biogeography of the stygobitic genus Godzillius (Crustacea: Remipedia) from the Lucayan Archipelago

  • 1. Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA.
  • 2. Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA. & Bahamas Caves Research Foundation, Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, The Bahamas. & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
  • 3. Bahamas Caves Research Foundation, Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, The Bahamas.
  • 4. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
  • 5. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 6. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
  • 7. Bahamas Caves Research Foundation, Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, The Bahamas. & Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science & Abess Center, University of Miami, USA.
  • 8. Institute of Environment and Department of Biology, Florida International University - Biscayne Bay Campus, USA.
  • 9. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Ballou, Lauren, Iliffe, Thomas M., Kakuk, Brian, Gonzalez, Brett C., Osborn, Karen J., Worsaae, Katrine, Meland, Kenneth, Broad, Kenneth, Bracken-Grissom, Heather, Olesen, Jørgen (2021): Monsters in the dark: systematics and biogeography of the stygobitic genus Godzillius (Crustacea: Remipedia) from the Lucayan Archipelago. European Journal of Taxonomy 751 (1): 115-139, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1383, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1383

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