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The slugs of Britain and Ireland: undetected and undescribed species increase a well-studied, economically important fauna by more than 20%.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Rowson Ben, Anderson Roy, Turner James A, Symondson William O C
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The slugs of Britain and Ireland form a well-studied fauna of economic importance. They include many widespread European species that are introduced elsewhere (at least half of the 36 currently recorded British species are established in North America, for example). To test the contention that the British and Irish fauna consists of 36 species, and to verify the identity of each, a species delimitation study was...
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