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The First Known Invasion of a Free-living Marine Flatworm

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY, 13045, USA (e-mail

    Brian R. Rivest

  2. Department of Marine Biology, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, P.O. Box 14, 9750 AA, Haren, The Netherlands

    James Coyer

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine Orono, Orono, ME, 04469, USA

    Seth Tyler

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Rivest, B.R., Coyer, J. & Tyler, S. The First Known Invasion of a Free-living Marine Flatworm. Biological Invasions 1, 393–394 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010076418671

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