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University of Central Florida

Chris Parkinson, University of Central Florida

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The new discovery shows some of the complexities we deal with when cataloging biodiversity and underscores the importance of maintaining natural-history collections, said UCF Professor Chris Parkinson. Discovering this species would not have been possible without the specimens housed in natural-history museums.

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