First discovery of monotremes in South America

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1992-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/356704A0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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