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- The Sea Slug Forum : Maxacteon milleri
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- Valdés Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196:587-792
