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- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Albunione australiana Markham & Boyko, 1999". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ↑ Markham, John (2010). "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum" (PDF). Nature .
- ↑ Markham, John; Boyko, Christopher (1999). A new genus for Ione indecora Markham, 1988, a second record for that species, and a new congeneric species from Australia (Crustacea, Isopoda, Bopyridae, Ioninae). American Museum of Natural History.
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