Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Molecular studies have been instrumental for refining species boundaries in the coral genus
Pocillopora and revealing hidden species diversity within the extensively studied global …

This study assesses the biogeographic classification of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) on
the basis of the species diversity and distribution of reef-building corals. Twenty one …

Abstract The South China Sea in the Central Indo-Pacific is a large marine region that spans
an area of more than 3 million km 2 bounded by the coastlines of ten Asian nation states and …

The taxonomy of scleractinian corals has traditionally been established based on
morphology at the “macro” scale since the time of Carl Linnaeus. Taxa described using …

Modern coral taxonomy has begun to resolve many long-standing problems in traditional
systematics stemming from its reliance on skeletal macromorphology. By integrating …

Coral reefs are the epitome of species diversity, yet the number of described scleractinian
coral species, the framework-builders of coral reefs, remains moderate by comparison. DNA …

Aim Using high‐resolution genetic markers on samples gathered from across their wide
distributional range, we endeavoured to delimit species diversity in reef‐building Pocillopora …

The incredible range of morphological plasticity present in scleractinian corals has confused
the taxonomy of the group, prompting the introduction of “ecomorphs” to explain the …