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Fantastic beasts and how to delimit them: an integrative approach using multispecies coalescent methods reveals two new, endemic Dugesia species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from Corsica and Sardinia

  • 1. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  • 2. Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Via Vienna 2, University of Sassari, Sassari I-07100, Italy
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 Þ Leiden, Ŋe Netherlands

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Dols-Serrate, Daniel, Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, Sluys, Ronald, Riutort, Marta (2024): Fantastic beasts and how to delimit them: an integrative approach using multispecies coalescent methods reveals two new, endemic Dugesia species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from Corsica and Sardinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201 (3): 1-29, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad135, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad135

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