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Madagascar's living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium)

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Wesener, Thomas, Bespalova, Ioulia, Sierwald, Petra (2010): Madagascar's living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium). African Invertebrates 51 (1): 133, DOI: 10.5733/afin.051.0102, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.051.0102

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