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Publication Bieler et al. (2014): summary
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Complete Citation

Bieler, R., P.M. Mikkelsen, T.M. Collins, E.A. Glover, V.L. González et al. 2014. Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life — An exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics 28: 32-115. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Gaimardia trapezina Bieler et al., 2014
‘Lamarck’ Bieler et al., 2014. Invert. Syst. 28: Table 1.
(error for Modiola trapesina Lamarck, 1819)

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