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Studies on western Pacific gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae). Part 2: unexpected diversity of the genus Iridogorgia in the tropical western Pacific with descriptions of two new species
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- 1. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.
- 2. School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.
- 3. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China. & Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China. & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Xu, Yu, Watling, Les, Zhan, Zifeng, Xu, Kuidong (2025): Studies on western Pacific gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae). Part 2: unexpected diversity of the genus Iridogorgia in the tropical western Pacific with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5689 (3): 451-486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.3.3
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