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Hiding in the Arctic and in mountains: a (dis)entangled classification of Claxtonia (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

  • 1. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland & Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350; Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6/B1, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 3. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

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Gąsiorek, Piotr, Degma, Peter, Michalczyk, Łukasz (2024): Hiding in the Arctic and in mountains: a (dis)entangled classification of Claxtonia (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (1): 60-86, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad029, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad029

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