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Call me by my name: unravelling the taxonomy of the gulper shark genus Centrophorus in the Mediterranean Sea through an integrated taxonomic approach

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Bellodi, Andrea, Benvenuto, Anna, Melis, Riccardo, Mulas, Antonello, Barone, Monica, Barría, Claudio, Cariani, Alessia, Carugati, Laura, Chatzispyrou, Archontia, Desrochers, Monique, Ferrari, Alice, Guallart, Javier, Hemida, Farid, Mancusi, Cecilia, Mazzoldi, Carlotta, Ramírez-Amaro, Sergio, Rey, Javier, Scannella, Danilo, Serena, Fabrizio, Tinti, Fausto, Vella, Adriana, Follesa, Maria Cristina, Cannas, Rita (2022): Call me by my name: unravelling the taxonomy of the gulper shark genus Centrophorus in the Mediterranean Sea through an integrated taxonomic approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 815-840, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab110, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab110

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