Morphological and genetic identification of Halophila species and a new distribution record of Halophila nipponica at the Tanjung Adang Laut shoal, Johor, Malaysia

• Muhammad Afif Che Alias ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Afif Che Alias, Muta Harah Zakaria, Japar Sidik Bujang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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• Muta Harah Zakaria ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Afif Che Alias, Muta Harah Zakaria, Japar Sidik Bujang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: muta@upm.edu.my

  Affiliations Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, International Institute of Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences (I-AQUAS), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9077-367X

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• Shiamala Devi Ramaiya,

  Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia Bintulu Sarawak Campus, Bintulu, Malaysia

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• Yuzine Esa,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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• Nurul Izza Ab. Ghani,

  Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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• Japar Sidik Bujang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Afif Che Alias, Muta Harah Zakaria, Japar Sidik Bujang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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