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A bibliographic review of the Chelodesmidae of the Antilles and Bahamas (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)
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- 1. Postgraduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- 2. Laboratorio de Sistemática Animal, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Ciudad del Conocimiento, Hidalgo, 42184, Mexico
- 3. Department of Recent Invertebrates, Virginia Museum of Natural History. 21 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, Virginia, USA
- 4. Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo. Rua do Matão 101, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil & Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan. Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, 05503-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Suriel, Carlos, Bueno-Villegas, Julián, Means, Jackson C., Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador (2024): A bibliographic review of the Chelodesmidae of the Antilles and Bahamas (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Zootaxa 5538 (3): 247-263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.3.3
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