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Atlas of the Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) of the World-part I: West Palaearctic Echiniscus species
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- 1. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland. & Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350; Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 2. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland. & Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. katarzyna.voncina@senckenberg.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3210-0407 Correspondence: piotr.lukas.gasiorek@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-8117 & Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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Gąsiorek, Piotr, Vončina, Katarzyna (2023): Atlas of the Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) of the World-part I: West Palaearctic Echiniscus species. Zootaxa 5344 (1): 1-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5344.1.1, URL: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5344.1.1/51852
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