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References
- 1 2 Ilyophis saldanhai at www.fishbase.org.
- ↑ Karmovskaya, E. S. and N. V. Parin, 1999 [ref. 24869] A new species of the genus Ilyophis (Synaphobranchidae, Anguilliformes) from the hydrothermal area Boken Spur (Mid-Atlantic Submarine Ridge)./ Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 39 (no. 3): 316-325.
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