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650:"Danish Researches in the Atlantic and Mediterranean on the Life-History of the Freshwater-Eel (Anguilla vulgaris, Turt.). With notes on other species.) with Plates IV—IX and 2 Text-figures"
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684:"Johannes Schmidt (1877-1933)"
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