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Larva of the species Pyura herdmani from Langebaan lagoon, South Africa. The arrow indicates the position of the notochord within the tail. Photograph: Marc Rius

Cryptic diversity alerts to the challenges in distinguishing between invasive and native populations

The poorly resolved taxonomy of many organisms represents a major obstacle to correctly identifying them as being either native or introduced. This is because several groups are only known to a handful of experts.

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