A new species of alcyonacean octocoral from the Galápagos Archipelago

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 801-807

  Breedy, Odalisca ^a,b   Guzman, Hector M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALCYONACEA; HETEROGORGIA; VERRUCOSA;

EID: 22944478020     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405011732     Document Type: Article

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