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A NOTE ON THE OCCURENCE OF LAND PLANARIANS
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Acknowledgement
Thanks to Ole Christensen and Janice G. Mather, both
of the Zoological Laboratory, University of Aarhus,
Denmark for kindly reviewing this note. Thanks to Kate
Sanderson for proofreading, and to Marianne Debes
Dahl for translation of the Faroese abstract.
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Dorete Bloch
Museum of Natural History
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Faroe Islands