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Molecular and Morphological Species Boundaries in the Gorgonian Octocoral Genus Pterogorgia (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Most gorgonian octocoral species are described using diagnostic characteristics of their sclerites (microscopic skeletal components). Species in the genus Pterogorgia, however, are separated primarily by differences in their calyx and branch morphology ...
Herman H Wirshing, Andrew C Baker
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Selection in coral mitogenomes, with insights into adaptations in the deep sea [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Corals are a dominant benthic fauna that occur across a vast range of depths from just below the ocean’s surface to the abyssopelagic zone. However, little is known about the evolutionary mechanisms that enable them to inhabit such a wide range of ...
Nina I. Ramos +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Cold-water corals build up reef structures or coral gardens and play an important role for many organisms in the deep sea. Climate change, deep-sea mining, and bottom trawling are severely compromising these ecosystems, making it all the more important ...
Severin A. Korfhage +6 more
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Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics [PDF]
Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 2022 The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia includes over 3500 nominal species of soft corals and gorgonian sea fans, many of which serve as critical foundation species in benthic marine ecosystems in shallow waters to the deep sea.
C. McFadden +2 more
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Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) re-examined [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2013 Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) is re-described. Sinularia leptoclados var. gonatodes Kolonko, 1926 is synonymized with S. maxima Verseveldt, 1977.
Leen van Ofwegen +2 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 The taxonomic status of Alcyonium aurantiacum Quoy & Gaimard, 1833, an octocoral endemic to New Zealand, was reviewed through morpho-molecular data comparisons in an integrative approach.
Gustav M. Kessel +6 more
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Diversity, 2021 Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are recognized around the world as diverse and ecologically important habitats. In the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoMx), MCEs are rocky reefs with abundant black corals and octocorals, including the species Swiftia ...
Janessy Frometa +4 more
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Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Five Species Including Three New Species of Golden Gorgonians (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Seamounts in the Western Pacific [PDF]
Biology, 2021 Members of genus Iridogorgia Verrill, 1883 are the typical deep-sea megabenthos with only seven species reported. Based on an integrated morphological-molecular approach, eight sampled specimens of Iridogorgia from seamounts in the tropical Western ...
Yu Xu, Zifeng Zhan, Kuidong Xu
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Ilmu Kelautan, 2022 Clavularia inflata was first described from Ternate Island, Indonesia in 1896 and later reported appeared from Japan and Taiwan in 1953.Clavularia (Blainville 1830) soft corals exhibit complex morphological traits that are difficult to differentiate ...
Beginer Subhan +9 more
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Diversity, 2022 Deep-sea corals are important benthic inhabitants that support the biodiversity and function of the wider faunal community; however, their taxonomy is underdeveloped and their accurate identification is often difficult.
Declan Morrissey +5 more
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