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Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840
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Moreno, Antonio, Roszkowska, Milena, García, Mario Alberto, Flores, José Juan, Kaczmarek, Łukasz (2019): Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840. Zootaxa 4691 (5): 501-524, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.5
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