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Coralliidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the INDEMARES 2010 expedition to north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), with delimitation of a new species using both morphological and molecular approaches

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Tu, Tzu-Hsuan, Altuna, Álvaro, Jeng, Ming-Shiou (2015): Coralliidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the INDEMARES 2010 expedition to north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), with delimitation of a new species using both morphological and molecular approaches. Zootaxa 3926 (3): 301-328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.3.1

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