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Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Saba Island, Lesser Antilles: Unusually high species richness indicates the Caribbean Biodiversity Hotspot is woefully undersampled

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Slowik, Jozef, Sikes, Derek S. (2011): Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Saba Island, Lesser Antilles: Unusually high species richness indicates the Caribbean Biodiversity Hotspot is woefully undersampled. Insecta Mundi 2011 (177): 1-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5161000

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