“…It has been investigated in NW Europe (Maggs and Guiry 1982), Australia (Huisman 1986(Huisman , 2006Millar 1990;Huisman and Womersley 1994), Japan (Kajimura 1988(Kajimura , 1991(Kajimura , 1995, Korea (Lee and Ko 2006) and the Gulf of California (León-Cisneros et al 2009). These authors described the morphological, anatomical and reproductive features used for species diagnosis.…”