David Penney (2008): Dominican amber spiders: a comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography
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Book review: Penney D, Selden PA (2011) Fossil Spiders: the evolutionary history of a mega-diverse order. Monograph Series, Volume 1. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, 128 pp., 87 photographs (hardback)
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عنوان ژورنال: Arachnologische Mitteilungen
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1018-4171
DOI: 10.5431/aramit3511