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 …

A well-supported evolutionary tree representing most major lineages of scleractinian corals
is in sight with the development and application of phylogenomic approaches. Specifically …

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 …

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 …

Accurate delimitation of species and their relationships is a fundamental issue in
evolutionary biology and taxonomy and provides essential implications for conservation …

Discrepancies between morphology-based taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics are
common in Scleractinian corals. In Pocillopora corals, nine recently identified genetic …

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

The 120 presently recognized genera and seven subgenera of the azooxanthellate
Scleractinia are keyed using gross morphological characters of the corallum. All genera are …