Morphological and molecular analysis of Western Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster cf. solaris (Schreber, 1793) in Southern Negros Island, the Philippines
The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is known to destroy coral reefs by ingesting scleractinian corals during population outbreaks. Previous studies showed that Acanthaster planci is comprised of four species collectively called the A. planci species complex. Despite available online database sequenc...
| I publikationen: | Philippine Journal of Science Vol. 153, no. 6A (Dec. 2024), 2203-2215 |
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2024
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