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On the Contents of Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989, with the Description of a Previously Unrecognized Clade of Small Didelphid Marsupials

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VOSS, ROBERT S., LUNDE, DARRIN P., JANSA, SHARON A. (2005): On the Contents of Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989, with the Description of a Previously Unrecognized Clade of Small Didelphid Marsupials. American Museum Novitates 3482: 1-35, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282005%29482%5B0001%3AOTCOGG%5D2.0.CO%3B2

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