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The long-eared freshwater planarians of Madagascar form a separate phylogenetic clade within the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), with the description of two new species
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- 1. Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100, Sassari, Italy
- 2. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- 3. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, & Present address: Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, (CSIC- Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- 4. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
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Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, Sluys, Ronald, Solà, Eduard, Riutort, Marta, Manconi, Renata (2024): The long-eared freshwater planarians of Madagascar form a separate phylogenetic clade within the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), with the description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (zlae143) 202 (4): 1-29, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae143, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae143
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