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        <title xml:lang="eng">Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)</title>
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            <para>The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens.</para>
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