Demography of the over-exploited Mediterranean red coral (Corrallium rubrum L. 1758)
Scientia Marina, 2004 The precious octocoral, Corallium rubrum, endemic to the Mediterranean, has long been overexploited. A demographic approach to the conservation and management of this species would therefore be highly valuable.
G Santangelo +3 more
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A new deep-sea pennatulacean (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chunellidae) from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic) [PDF]
, 2010 During the BENGAL cruises, an important collection of deep-sea benthic organisms was sampled. Among the pennatulacean colonies, a previously undescribed species of chunellid was collected.
López González, Pablo José +1 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Plumarella spinosa (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Primnoidae) is an endangered marine soft coral species discovered on a 50–100 m deep reefs in South Korea. We analyzed the mitochondrial genome sequence of this species.
Eun Hwa Choi +7 more
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Low clonal propagation in Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Octocorallia) [PDF]
, 2017 Clonal propagation is a common feature of benthic marine organisms. In the present study, we investigated the contribution of clonal reproduction in the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. Mediterranean populations of P.
Andrea Peirano +15 more
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Subindividual variability in sea pens (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea)
Scientia Marina, 2023 Comparisons between plants and sessile modular colonial invertebrates offer interesting parallelisms between plant and animal body plans after millions of years of divergent evolution.
Francisco J. García-Cárdenas
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 29, Issue 12, Page 1578-1593, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim Research on mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) has increased exponentially in recent decades, and the significance of this ecosystem has been recognised both in terms of biodiversity and distribution. However, this research has mostly focussed on corals and is globally sporadic, with the Indian Ocean remaining largely unexplored and ...
Clara Diaz +8 more
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Stephanthus antarcticus, a new genus and species of sea anemone (Actiniaria, Haloclavidae) from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica [PDF]
, 2003 Stephanthus antarcticus gen. nov. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from six specimens collected in the Antarctic Peninsula on the Polarstern cruises ANT XV/3 and ANT XIX/3. The new genus is characterised by the absence of sphincter and basilar
López González, Pablo José +1 more
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Four new species of Thouarella (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Primnoidae) from Antarctic waters
Scientia Marina, 2010 Four new Antarctic species of the genus Thouarella, all of them belonging to the subgenus Thouarella, are described and illustrated from material collected at the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and off Atka Bay (eastern Weddell Sea) on the
Rebeca Zapata-Guardiola +1 more
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Two new species of Antarctic gorgonians (Octocorallia: Primnoidae) with a redescription of Thouarella laxa Versluys, 1906 [PDF]
, 2009 Two new species of the genus Thouarella from Antarctic waters are described and illustrated from material collected on the Polarstern cruises ANT XVII/3 (EASIZ III), ANT XIX/5 (LAMPOS) and ANT XXI/2 (BENDEX).
López González, Pablo José +1 more
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First record of Viminella sp. (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea: Ellisellidae) in the Persian Gulf [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 This paper presents the first record of Viminella Gray 1870 from the Persian Gulf. This genus has a global distribution and its largest distribution is in the Indo-Pacific region.
Shemshad Shahbazi +3 more
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