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Morphology and occurrence of rhodoliths in siliciclastic, intertidal environments from a high latitude reef setting, southern Mozambique

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The Royal Society (UK) are thanked for their generous support of field and laboratory work on the reef systems of Inhaca Island. The help and assistance of staff at the Inhaca Marine Biology Station of the Universidad Eduardo Mondlane is gratefully acknowledged, as is the assistance of Mike Dobson and Simon Beavington-Penney during fieldwork. The communiation benefitted from the constructive comments of two anonymous reviewers for Coral Reefs.

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Perry, C.T. Morphology and occurrence of rhodoliths in siliciclastic, intertidal environments from a high latitude reef setting, southern Mozambique. Coral Reefs 24, 201–207 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-005-0486-2

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