First record of the central Indo-Pacific reef coral Oulastrea crispata in the Mediterranean sea

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 429-436

  Hoeksema, B W ^a   Vicente, O Ocaña ^b  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Fundación Museo del Mar de Ceuta   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colonizer; Corsica; Non indigenous; Non lessepsian; Scleractinia; Western mediterranean; Zooxanthellate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904070187     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.751     Document Type: Article

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