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Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge and discovery (Pisces)

Curator emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 94118 and Research Associate, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. 32611
Ichthyology, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 94118
P.O. Box 518, Halfway House 1685, South Africa
Fish Pisces Marine fishes (all) history of discovery taxonomy valid taxa statistics of discovery biogeography families genera species

Abstract

A new monotypic genus, Bloszykiella africana gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mesostigmata: Uropodina: Uropodidae) is described on the basis of two females and one deutonymph found in soil samples from Tanzania. The new genus is unusual among Uropodina in having large strongly dentate chelicerae.

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