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Pterospora demodendrion sp.nov. and Pterospora clymenellae, acephaline eugregarines from coastal North Carolina

S C Landers1

  • 1Zoology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

European Journal of Protistology
|December 1, 2012
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