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Terraneo, Tullia I.; Berumen, Michael L.; Arrigoni, Roberto; Waheed, Zarinah; Bouwmeester, Jessica; Caragnano, Annalisa; Stefani, Fabrizio; Benzoni, Francesca. |
A new scleractinian coral species, Pachyseris inattesa sp. n., is described from the Red Sea. Despite a superficial resemblance with some species in the agariciid genus Leptoseris with which it has been previously confused, P. inattesa sp. n. has micro-morphological characters typical of the genus Pachyseris. This genus, once part of the Agariciidae, is comprised of five extant species and is widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific. It is currently incertae sedis as a result of recent molecular analysis and appears to be closely related to the Euphylliidae. A molecular phylogenetic reconstruction including P. inattesa sp. n., the genus type species P. rugosa, and P. speciosa, all present in the Red Sea, was performed using the mitochondrial... |
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Palavras-chave: Pachyseris rugosa; Pachyseris speciosa; Leptoseris foliosa; Micro-morphology; COI-16S-rRNA intergenic spacer; Taxonomy. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00585/69701/67566.pdf |
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Waheed, Zarinah; Benzoni, Francesca; Van Der Meij, Sancia E. T.; Terraneo, Tullia I.; Hoeksema, Bert W.. |
Layang-Layang is a small island part of an oceanic atoll in the Spratly Islands off Sabah, Malaysia. As the reef coral fauna in this part of the South China Sea is poorly known, a survey was carried out in 2013 to study the species composition of the scleractinian coral families Fungiidae, Agariciidae and Euphylliidae. A total of 56 species was recorded. The addition of three previously reported coral species brings the total to 59, consisting of 32 Fungiidae, 22 Agariciidae, and five Euphylliidae. Of these, 32 species are new records for Layang-Layang, which include five rarely reported species, i.e., the fungiids Lithophyllon ranjithi, Podabacia sinai, Sandalolitha boucheti, and the agariciids Leptoseris kalayaanensis and L. troglodyta. The coral fauna... |
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Palavras-chave: Scleractinia; South China Sea; Malaysia; Atoll; Distribution ranges; New records; Species richness. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00585/69700/67567.pdf |
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