Phylogeny of batoidea

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 79-114

  McEachran, John D ^a   Aschliman, Neil ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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