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A New Species of the Genus Hemicorallium (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Coralliidae) Collected from Okinawa Island
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- 1. Okinawa Churashima Foundation Research Institute, Motobu, Okinawa 905-0206, Japan E-mail: masanori.nonaka@gmail.com & Corresponding author
- 2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Nonaka, Masanori, Takata, Kenji, Yasuda, Nina (2025): A New Species of the Genus Hemicorallium (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Coralliidae) Collected from Okinawa Island. Species Diversity 30 (2): 193-206, DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.30.193, URL: https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.30.193
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