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OCTOCORALS

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1

6 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop
9 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence
10 Reef News CORAL staff reports
22 Reef Visions by Matt Pedersen

FEATURE ARTICLES
28 Octocorallia — A closer look at the eight-tentacled wonders we know as soft corals by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.
44 Farm Fresh — The growing world of soft corals by Matt Pedersen
56 Desire & Reality — Azooxanthellate soft corals by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
64 Xenia & Xeniids — Beautiful, beguiling, and sometimes a bane by Felicia McCaulley
76 Sun, Moon, and Shoals — Underwater explorations in South Sulawesi by Werner Fiedler

AQUARIUM PORTRAIT
86 Textbook Reef in Bavaria by Roland Wagner

DEPARTMENTS
93 Species Spotlight: Antennata Lionfish, Pterois antennata by Daniel Knop
98 CORAL Sources: Outstanding aquarium shops
100 CORALexicon: Technical terms that appear in this issue
102 Reef Marketplace: The marine products showcase
104 Advanced Aquatics: Where the aquarium fishery is a wild reef ecosystem’s best friend by Art Parola
112 Advertiser Index
114 Reef Life: by Denise Nielsen Tackett and Larry P. Tackett

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