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Publication Graf & Cummings (2021): summary
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Complete Citation

Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2021. A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1). eyaa034 (36 pp.). Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Contradens crossei Jeratthitikul et al., 2019
‘Deshayes’ of Authors.
Jeratthitikul et al., 2019. Systemat. Biodiv. 17: 140, figs. 1.7-1.9.
Konopleva et al., 2019. Ecologica Montenegrina 24: 30.
Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1.
Graf & Cummings, 2021. J. Moll. Studies 87(1): 25.

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