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New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Iran with the description of one new species based on morphology and DNA barcodes

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-345X; vladopesic@gmail.com
  • 2. Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Szczecin, Wąska 13, 71-415 Szczecin, Poland.
  • 3. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
  • 4. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.

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Pešić, Vladimir, Zawal, Andrzej, Saboori, Alireza, Smit, Harry (2021): New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Iran with the description of one new species based on morphology and DNA barcodes. Zootaxa 5082 (5): 425-440, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.5.2

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