Revision and cladistic analysis of the erigonine spider genus Sisicottus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 553-603

  Miller, Jeremy A ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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