Mesophotic mushroom coral records at Brunei Darussalam support westward extension of the coral triangle to the South China sea waters of Northwest Borneo

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 204-212

  Lane, David J W ^a   Hoeksema, Bert W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Fungiidae; Scleractinia; Species richness; Spratly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981172868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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