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A new species of Careproctus (Cottoidei: Liparidae) from the Falkland Plateau, southwestern Atlantic, with COI-based phylogenetic analysis
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- 1. Falkland Islands Fisheries Department, Bypass Road, PO Box 598, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands
- 2. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 3. Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
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Villarroel-Perez, Martin L., Chernova, Natalia V., Weston, Johanna J. N., Vukasin, Vedrana, Shcherbich, Zhanna (2026): A new species of Careproctus (Cottoidei: Liparidae) from the Falkland Plateau, southwestern Atlantic, with COI-based phylogenetic analysis. Zootaxa 5777 (3): 453-470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5777.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5777.3.3
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