Excerpt from The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, 1853, Vol. 12: Being a Continuation of the 'Annals' Combined With Loudon and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History'
XII. Description of several new species of British Crustacea. 'by william thompson, Esq. (with a Plate.)
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