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Australia's deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional affinities of recent collections

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Alderslade, Philip, Althaus, Franziska, Mcennulty, Felicity, Gowlett-Holmes, Karen, Williams, Alan (2014): Australia's deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional affinities of recent collections. Zootaxa 3796 (3): 435-452, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.2

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