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First record of the squaloid sharkScymnodon squamulosus from the Hawaiian Islands

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Wetherbee, B.M., Crow, G.L. First record of the squaloid sharkScymnodon squamulosus from the Hawaiian Islands. Ichthyological Research 43, 334–339 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02347606

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