Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals acropora and isopora (scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the museum of tropical Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-257

  Wallace, Carden C ^a   Done, Barbara J ^a   Muir, Paul R ^a  

^a MUSEUM OF TROPICAL QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthozoa; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Coral reefs; Hexacorals; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84874191653     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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