<i>Egoria malashichevi</i> (IMAGE)

St. Petersburg State University

<i>Egoria malashichevi</i>

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A group of Russian and German palaeontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi -- in honor of Yegor Malashichev a talented scientist and associate professor of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at St Petersburg University, who passed away at the end of 2018.

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Vadim Glinskiy

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