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View article: Integrative Phylogenetic and Morphological Analyses Reveal Two New Species of Porcellanid Crabs and Resurrect <i>Porcellanella picta</i> Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Porcellanidae)
Integrative Phylogenetic and Morphological Analyses Reveal Two New Species of Porcellanid Crabs and Resurrect <i>Porcellanella picta</i> Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda: Porcellanidae) Open
Members of the genus Porcellanella White, 1851 (Porcellanidae) are common commensals of sea pens in tropical and subtropical coastal waters. Despite having only three described species ( P. triloba White, 1851 from Cape Capricorn, Australi…
View article: Hidden in Plain Sight: Integrative Taxonomy Discovers Two New Species of Digitate Soft Corals in the Urban Waters of China's Greater Bay Area
Hidden in Plain Sight: Integrative Taxonomy Discovers Two New Species of Digitate Soft Corals in the Urban Waters of China's Greater Bay Area Open
Digitate or lobate scleralcyonacean soft corals are common in tropical reef ecosystems, yet their morphological plasticity and insufficient genetic information hinder our understanding of their diversity. In the China Seas, only four such …
View article: Bottom Trawling and Multi‐Marker <scp>eDNA</scp> Metabarcoding Surveys Reveal Highly Diverse Vertebrate and Crustacean Communities: A Case Study in an Urbanized Subtropical Estuary
Bottom Trawling and Multi‐Marker <span>eDNA</span> Metabarcoding Surveys Reveal Highly Diverse Vertebrate and Crustacean Communities: A Case Study in an Urbanized Subtropical Estuary Open
Estuarine habitats serve as critical feeding and nursery grounds for many aquatic species and support fisheries. However, monitoring these complex ecosystems using conventional trawling methods is destructive, costly, and labor‐intensive. …
View article: One becomes three: An integrative morphological and molecular analysis of the windowpane oyster <i>Placuna</i> (Bivalvia: Pectinida) reveals new species
One becomes three: An integrative morphological and molecular analysis of the windowpane oyster <i>Placuna</i> (Bivalvia: Pectinida) reveals new species Open
For decades, many marine animals have been considered to exhibit cosmopolitan or transoceanic distribution. This situation is prevalent in Asia, where many species were collected and named by American or European experts in the 1700s to ea…