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An extraordinary new genus of spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae (Araneae)

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Dimitrov, Dimitar, Hormiga, Gustavo (2011): An extraordinary new genus of spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae (Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 161 (4): 735-768, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00662.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00662.x

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