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Taxonomic Descriptions of Two Marine Ciliates, Euplotes dammamensis n. sp. and Euplotes balteatus (Dujardin, 1841) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Euplotida), Collected from the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia

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Chen, Xiangrui, Zhao, Yan, Al-Farraj, Saleh A., Al-Quraishy, Saleh A., El-Serehy, Hamed A., Shao, Chen, Al-Rasheid, Khaled A.S. (2013): Taxonomic Descriptions of Two Marine Ciliates, Euplotes dammamensis n. sp. and Euplotes balteatus (Dujardin, 1841) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Euplotida), Collected from the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia. Acta Protozoologica 52 (2): 73-89, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.13.008.1087, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/153ff459-e010-360c-a968-5a6e80a13420/

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