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A new record of Acanthogorgia species(Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Holaxonia: Acanthogorgiidae) from Korea

  • Received : 2018.01.17
  • Accepted : 2018.01.23
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

In 2017, during a survey of the anthozoan fauna in the Hallyeohaesang National Park in the South Sea, several Acanthogorgia specimens were collected from the subtidal zone. Through taxonomic analysis, one species, Acanthogorgia densiflora $K{\ddot{u}}kenthal$ & Gorzawsky, 1908, was found to be previously unreported from Korea, and was, therefore, newly added to the list of Korean anthozoan fauna. This species is distributed on the slopes of the rocky substratum between depths of 14 and 24 m. Including the findings from this study, ten species of the genus Acanthogorgia have thus been reported from the Korean waters until now.

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