Global diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae).

The history and rate of discovery of the 247 valid Recent stylasterid species are discussed and graphed, with emphasis on five historical pulses of species descriptions. A table listing all genera, their species numbers, and their bathymetric ranges are presented. The number of species in 19 oceanog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephen D Cairns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3142106?pdf=render