A new family of soft corals (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) from the aphotic tropical eastern Pacific waters revealed by integrative taxonomy
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A new family of soft corals (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) from the aphotic tropical eastern Pacific waters revealed by integrative taxonomy Odalisca Breedy a b , Leen P. van Ofwegen c & Sergio Vargas d a Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, and Centro de Investigación en Estructuras Microscópicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, 11501-2060 San José, Costa Rica b Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama c Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, NL-2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands d Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, LudwigMaximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany
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