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Issue: Vol. 5424 No. 1: 12 Mar. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.1.8
Page range: 136-138
Abstract views: 43
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Decision favoring Megaperidae Manter, 1934 and errata as relates to Blend et al. 2017

Corpus Christi Museum of Science & History; Natural History Collections & Planetarium; 1900 N. Chaparral St.; Corpus Christi; Texas 78401; USA
Department of Zoology; Faculty of Sciences; New Valley University; Kharga; New Valley; Egypt
Laboratory of Parasitology; Biodiversity Research & Teaching Collection; Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology; College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; Texas A&M University; College Station; Texas 77843; USA
Platyhelminthes Megaperidae Manter Apocreadiidae Skrjabin Euryperidae Manter Homalometridae Cable & Hunninen Schistorchiidae Yamaguti Sphincterostomatidae Yamaguti Trematobrienidae Dollfus Megapera Manter

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