Morphological evidence supports splitting of species in the North Atlantic Sebastes spp. complex

• Ingrid Marie Bruvold ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ingrid.marie.bruvold@hi.no, torild.johansen@hi.no

  Affiliations Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1603-2838

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• Agneta Hansen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway

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• Arve Lynghammar,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-568X

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• Hannes Höffle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway

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• Tanja Hanebrekke,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway

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• Caroline Aas Tranang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway

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• Kjell Nedreaas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Nordnes, Bergen, Norway

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• Einar Nilssen,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Atal Saha,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Coastal Research, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Torild Johansen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Framsenteret, Tromsø, Norway

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