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- 1 2 3 4 5 Stefanie Kaiser; Terue Cristina Kihara; Saskia Brix; Inga Mohrbeck; Annika Janssen; Robert M. Jennings (2021). "Species boundaries and phylogeographic patterns in new species of Nannoniscus (Janiroidea: Nannoniscidae) from the equatorial Pacific nodule province inferred from mtDNA and morphology". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 1020–1071. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa174.
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