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Issue: Vol. 5346 No. 3: 19 Sept. 2023
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2023-09-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.3.9
Page range: 348-350
Abstract views: 227
PDF downloaded: 18

Additional Basking Shark Sightings: Cetorhinus maximus (Chondrichthyes: Cetorhinidae) off Algerian Coast

ENSSMAL. Higher National School of marine Sciences and coastal Management; Laboratory of Conservation and Valorization of Marine Resources (LCVRM). University Campus Dely Ibrahim; Bois des cars; PB 19; 16320; Algiers; Algeria
Pisces Chondrichthyes Cetorhinidae asking shark Cetorhinus maximus

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