Land caenogastropods of Mounts Mahermana, Ilapiry, and Vasiha, southeastern Madagascar, with conservation statuses of 17 species of Boucardicus

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Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 338-372

  Emberton, Kenneth C ^a   Pearce, Timothy A ^b  

^a Molluscan Biodiversity Institute   (United States)

^b Delaware Museum of Natural History   (United States)

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