Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)435-445
Number of pages11
JournalZootaxa
Volume4196
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Nov 2016

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