Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia

Thirteen species of deep-water calcaxonian octocorals belonging to the families Primnoidae, Chrysogorgiidae, and Isididae collected from off the Galápagos and Cocos Islands are described and figured. Seven of these species are described as new; nine of the 13 are not known outside the Galápagos regi...

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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5799731 2023-05-15T14:00:30+02:00 Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia Cairns, Stephen D. 2018-01-16 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799731/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29362544 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21779 en eng Pensoft Publishers http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799731/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29362544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21779 Stephen D. Cairns http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21779 2018-02-11T01:27:14Z Thirteen species of deep-water calcaxonian octocorals belonging to the families Primnoidae, Chrysogorgiidae, and Isididae collected from off the Galápagos and Cocos Islands are described and figured. Seven of these species are described as new; nine of the 13 are not known outside the Galápagos region. Of the four species occurring elsewhere, two also occur in the eastern Pacific, one off Hawaii, and one from off Antarctica. A key to the 22 Indo-Pacific species of Callogorgia is provided to help distinguish those species. Text Antarc* Antarctica PubMed Central (PMC) Pacific ZooKeys 729 1 46
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