Reply to Hendawitharana et al. Comment on “Arulananthan et al. The Status of the Coral Reefs of the Jaffna Peninsula (Northern Sri Lanka), with 36 Coral Species New to Sri Lanka Confirmed by DNA Bar-Coding. Oceans 2021, 2, 509

Reply to Hendawitharana et al. Comment on “Arulananthan et al. The Status of the Coral Reefs of the Jaffna Peninsula (Northern Sri Lanka), with 36 Coral Species New to Sri Lanka Confirmed by DNA Bar-Coding. Oceans 2021, 2, 509–529”

Published:2024-05-11 Issue:2 Volume:5 Page:285-291
ISSN:2673-1924
Container-title:Oceans
language:en
Short-container-title:Oceans

Author:

Arulananthan Ashani¹^ORCID,Herath Venura²^ORCID,Kuganathan Sivashanthini³^ORCID,Upasanta Anura⁴^ORCID,Harishchandra Akila⁵

Affiliation:

1. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka

2. Department of Agricultural Biology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20000, Sri Lanka

3. Department of Fisheries Science, University of Jaffna, Thirunelvely 40000, Sri Lanka

4. Faculty of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Ocean University of SL, Tangalle 81000, Sri Lanka

5. School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

Abstract

We appreciate the comments made by Hendawitharana et al [...]

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-1924/5/2/18/pdf

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