Comparative morphology and relationships of the agnostida

Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 95-136

  Cotton, Trevor J ^a   Fortey, Richard A ^b  

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^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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