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) …

Coral reefs have suffered long‐term decline due to a range of anthropogenic disturbances
and are now also under threat from climate change. For appropriate management of these …

Background Classical morphological taxonomy places the approximately 1400 recognized
species of Scleractinia (hard corals) into 27 families, but many aspects of coral evolution …

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 …

Background Corals are notoriously difficult to identify at the species-level due to few
diagnostic characters and variable skeletal morphology. This' coral species problem'is an …

Advances in our knowledge of eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) coral reef biogeography and
ecology during the past two decades are briefly reviewed. Fifteen ETP subregions are …

The Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) acts as a refuge for zooxanthellate coral communities
at high northern latitudes in the eastern Pacific. The diversity of dinoflagellate …

Major gaps remain in our understanding of the ecology, evolution, biodiversity,
biogeography, extinction risk, and adaptive potential of reef building corals. One of the …

Although black corals inhabit all the world's oceans, they have been relatively understudied
as∼ 185 of 247 species occur at depths> 50 m. Antipatharians have been included in …

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