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22 May 2018
Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories
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15 June 2018
Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation
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12 April 2018
Tweet success? Scientific communication correlates with increased citations in Ecology and Conservation
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18 August 2020
New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa
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8 October 2020
The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution
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4 October 2018
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research
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6 February 2020
Obama chez moi! The invasion of metropolitan France by the land planarian Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae)
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22 August 2018
Global mapping of potential natural vegetation: an assessment of machine learning algorithms for estimating land potential
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28 January 2020
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
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17 November 2020
Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics

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Ritrovato il toporagno elefante. Si pensava estinto da 50 anni
https://www.gqitalia.it/news/article/ritrovato-toporagno-elefante-gibuti

La musaraigne-éléphant de Somalie, une espèce pas si perdue
https://www.latribune.ca/actualites/insolite/la-musaraigne-elephant-de-somalie-une-espece-pas-si-perdue-0e5fd523d15c3557a70e02c9b5e4e6ff

Tiny elephant shrew species documented in Horn of Africa for first time in nearly 50 years
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/world/somali-sengi-documented-africa-scli-intl-scn/index.html

Elefantenspitzmaus in Ostafrika wiederentdeckt
https://www.spektrum.de/news/elefantenspitzmaus-in-ostafrika-wiederentdeckt/1760792

Oto maleńka krewna słonia. Przez 50 lat uznawano ją za gatunek zaginiony
https://www.national-geographic.pl/artykul/oto-malenka-krewna-slonia-przez-50-lat-uznawano-ja-za-gatunek-zaginiony

The Case of the Missing Sengi
https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-case-of-missing-sengi.html?m=1

Tiny Elephant Shrew Resurfaces After More Than 50 Years On Lost Species List
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905350284/researcher-identifies-tiny-mammal-last-documented-in-1968

Missing for over 50 years: Long-lost elephant shrew resurfaces in Africa
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/25/elephant-shrew-found-africa-after-lost-over-50-years/5631450002/

An elephant-nosed creature ‘lost to science’ was living just next door
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02468-1

Sida seynisyahannada ay magaca Somali Sengi ugu bixiyeen Walo-Sandheer
https://www.bbc.com/somali/war-53850946

Paralectotypes ?