Understanding morphology in systematic contexts: Three-dimensional specimen ordination and recognition

The New Taxonomy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-211

  MacLeod, Norman ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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