Incongruence between morphotypes and genetically delimited species in the coral genus Stylophora: Phenotypic plasticity, morphological convergence, morphological stasis or interspecific hybridization?

• Main Authors: Flot, Jean François, Blanchot, Jean, Charpy, Loïc, Cruaud, Corinne, Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Nakano, Yoshikatsu, Payri, Claude, Tillier, Simon
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Stylophora; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3321
• Institution: De La Salle University

Background: Morphological data suggest that, unlike most other groups of marine organisms, scleractinian corals of the genus Stylophora are more diverse in the western Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea than in the central Indo-Pacific. However, the morphology of corals is often a poor predictor of the...