Molecular analyses are transforming our understanding of the evolution of scleractinian
corals and conflict with traditional classification, which is based on skeletal morphology. A …

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 …

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 …

This book treats coral reefs in the water body enclosed between Iran and the Arabian
peninsula that in this book we refer to as “The Gulf”. The area is variably also known as the …

Abstract The biodiversity of Red Sea corals captured the attention of some of the earliest
European natural historians. Many of the first descriptions of tropical reef corals were based …

Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that most traditional families of
zooxanthellate shallow‐water scleractinians are polyphyletic, whereas most families mainly …

The scleractinian species Psammocora explanulata and Coscinaraea wellsi were originally
classified in the family Siderastreidae, but in a recent morpho-molecular study it appeared …

Recent advances in scleractinian systematics and taxonomy have been achieved through
the integration of molecular and morphological data, as well as rigorous analysis using …

Molecularly, the family Caryophylliidae is polyphyletic and different sets of genetic data
converge towards a consensus that a taxonomic review of this family is necessary. Overall …