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- ↑ Holocene bryozoans from the Nansha Sea area. Multidisciplinary Oceanographic Expedition Team of Academia Sinica to the Nansha Islands (ed. comm.). Quaternary Biological Groups of the Nansha Islands and Neighbouring Waters. Zhongshan University Publishing House, Guangzhou. Pages 11–81, 473–486
