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Research Article

A new species of Bathynomus Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the southern Gulf of Mexico with a redescription of Bathynomus jamesi Kou, Chen and Li, 2017 from off Pratas Island, Taiwan

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Pages 885-921 | Received 20 Feb 2022, Accepted 24 May 2022, Published online: 09 Aug 2022

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