Diversity, Relationships and Biogeography of Australian Flies

Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 227-256

  Yeates, David K ^a   Bickel, Daniel ^b   McAlpine, David K ^b   Colless, Don H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

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EID: 77949524474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004148970.I-45     Document Type: Chapter

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