The flamingo-grebe clade: A response to Storer (2006) [1]

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1446-1447

  Mayr, Gerald ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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EID: 36448968554     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[1446:TFCART]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Letter

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