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	<dwc:Genus>Microdesmus</dwc:Genus>
	<dwc:ScientificName>Microdesmus suttkusi Gilbert, 1966</dwc:ScientificName>
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	<synonym relationship='misapplied name'>Paramonacanthus oblongus (non Schlegel, 1850)</synonym>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=46206&amp;speccode=60869'>Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Database dump. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. (Ref. 46206)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=48594&amp;speccode=60869'>Hutchins, J.B.0 Description of a new genus and species of miniature monacanthid fish from the Seychelles and Marshall Islands. Rec. West. Aus. Mus. 21(2):213-219. (Ref. 48594)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=48595&amp;speccode=60869'>Regan, C.T.0 Report on the marine fishes collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the Indian Ocean. Percy Sladen Trust Expedition. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zoology), Series 2, 12:217-255. (Ref. 48595)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=115257&amp;speccode=60869'>FAO-FIES0 Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en (accessed 08/06/2017). (Ref. 115257)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=118272&amp;speccode=60869'>FAO-FIES0 Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. Retrieved from htttps://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en [accessed May, 2018] (Ref. 118272)</reference><dataObject>
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