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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 58018 | Bogutskaya, N.G., 2007. Preliminary assignment of coordinates to type localities in the Catalog of Fishes. Unpublished dbf file. | 2007 | Psednos melanocephalus | --> |
| 83729 | Møller, P.R., J.G. Nielsen, S.W. Knudsen, J.Y. Poulsen, K. Sünksen, O.A. Jørgensen and dupl, 2010. A checklist of the fish fauna of Greenland waters. Zootaxa 2378:1-84. | 2010 | Psednos melanocephalus | 10;tab.1 |