Rethinking the phylogeny of scleractinian corals: a review of morphological and molecular data

AF Budd, SL Romano, ND Smith… - Integrative and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Scleractinian corals, which include the architects of coral reefs, are found throughout the
world's oceans and have left a rich fossil record over their 240 million year history. Their …

Extraordinary diversity of reef corals in the South China Sea

D Huang, WY Licuanan, BW Hoeksema, CA Chen… - Marine Biodiversity, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

D Huang, F Benzoni, H Fukami… - Zoological Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Modern coral taxonomy has begun to resolve many long-standing problems in traditional
systematics stemming from its reliance on skeletal macromorphology. By integrating …

The new systematics of Scleractinia: integrating molecular and morphological evidence

MV Kitahara, H Fukami, F Benzoni, D Huang - The Cnidaria, Past, Present …, 2016 - Springer
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 …

A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life …

A Gittenberger, BT Reijnen, BW Hoeksema - Contributions to Zoology, 2011 - brill.com
The phylogenetic relationships of the Fungiidae, a family of predominantly free-living,
zooxanthellate, reef corals, were studied by sequencing a part of the mitochondrial …

Effects of diurnally oscillating pCO2 on the calcification and survival of coral recruits

AM Dufault, VR Cumbo, TY Fan… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Manipulative studies have demonstrated that ocean acidification (OA) is a threat to coral
reefs, yet no experiments have employed diurnal variations in p CO2 that are ecologically …

The influence of seawater temperature on the timing of coral spawning

CH Lin, Y Nozawa - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
We report the influence of seawater temperature on the timing of coral spawning for three
time-scales; months, days, and hours for four scleractinian coral species (Acropora …

Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments

N Sturaro, YE Hsieh, Q Chen, PL Wang… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mixotrophic organisms can derive nutrition from both auto‐and heterotrophy, which allows
them to use a variety of trophic pathways to sustain their metabolic demands under variable …

The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)

F Benzoni, F Stefani, M Pichon… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The morphometric and molecular boundaries between twelve Psammocora (Cnidaria,
Scleractinia) nominal species were addressed. The type specimens of Psammocora …

Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of Cycloseris explanulata and C. wellsi (Scleractinia: Fungiidae): lost mushroom corals find their way home

F Benzoni, R Arrigoni, F Stefani, BT Reijnen… - Contributions to …, 2012 - brill.com
The scleractinian species Psammocora explanulata and Coscinaraea wellsi were originally
classified in the family Siderastreidae, but in a recent morpho-molecular study it appeared …