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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-08-04
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Conservatism as an unjustifiable justification for the recognition of paraphyletic taxa: the case of Alopoglossidae

Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, CEP 66075–110, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, CEP 09972-270, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária 50670–901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. 
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