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Global diversity of marine isopods (except Asellota and crustacean symbionts).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Poore Gary C B, Bruce Niel L
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The crustacean order Isopoda (excluding Asellota, crustacean symbionts and freshwater taxa) comprise 3154 described marine species in 379 genera in 37 families according to the WoRMS catalogue. The history of taxonomic discovery over the last two centuries is reviewed. Although a well defined order with the Peracarida, their relationship to other orders is not yet resolved but systematics of the major subordinal...
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