A new species of shallow-water cerianthid (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from South Africa, with remarks on the genus Ceriantheopsis

African Natural History

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Molodtsova, Tina N ^a   Griffiths, Charles L ^b   Acuña, Fabian H ^c  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ceriantharia; Ceriantheopsis; New species; South africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873061376     PISSN: 18168396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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