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AntÔnio JoÃo Malafaia Peixoto1, Paulo Cesar Paiva

  • 1Laboratório de Polychaeta, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21941-902, Brazil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21941-902, Brazil.. antjmp@gmail.com.

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Annelida, Taxonomy, Polychaeta, morphology, biodiversity, Minuspio

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