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Richard Winterbottom, Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei, Copeia, Vol. 1993, No. 1 (Feb. 11, 1993), pp. 21-39
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