On the contents of Gracilinanus gardner and creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials

American Museum Novitates

Volumn , Issue 3482, 2005, Pages 1-34

  Voss, Robert S ^a   Lunde, Darrin P ^a   Jansa, Sharon A ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 30344451602     PISSN: 00030082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)482[0001:OTCOGG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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