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Shedding light on species boundaries in small endogeic animals through an integrative approach: species delimitation in the centipede Clinopodes carinthiacus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) in the south-eastern Alps

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Peretti, Emiliano, Cecchin, Chiara, Fusco, Giuseppe, Gregnanin, Luca, Kos, Ivan, Bonato, Lucio (2022): Shedding light on species boundaries in small endogeic animals through an integrative approach: species delimitation in the centipede Clinopodes carinthiacus (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) in the south-eastern Alps. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196 (2): 902-923, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac008, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/196/2/902/6547394

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