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Description of three new subspecies of Eisenia nordenskioldi (Annelida: Crassiclitellata) from Northeastern China
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- 1. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117, China.
- 2. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China.
- 3. Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 4. State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130117, China. & Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China.
- 5. College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Mindanao State University at Naawan, Naawan 9023, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
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Qin, Mingyan, Zhao, Huifeng, Zhang, Yufeng, Han, Anne Charis N., Shekhovtsov, Sergei V., Wu, Donghui, Aspe, Nonillon M. (2025): Description of three new subspecies of Eisenia nordenskioldi (Annelida: Crassiclitellata) from Northeastern China. Zootaxa 5642 (3): 225-244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5642.3.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5642.3.2
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