A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia)
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عنوان ژورنال: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0024-4082
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12075