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Historical, exceptionally large skulls of saltwater crocodiles discovered at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore

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Fukuda, Yusuke, How, Choon Beng, Seah, Bernard, Yang, Shufen, Pocklington, Kate, Peng, Lim Kok (2018): Historical, exceptionally large skulls of saltwater crocodiles discovered at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 810-813, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5364391

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