Cleaning up the 'Bigmessidae': Molecular phylogeny of scleractinian corals from Faviidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae and Trachyphylliidae

• Main Authors: Huang, Danwei, Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Baird, Andrew H., Fukami, Hironobu
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Scleractinia; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3320
• Institution: De La Salle University

Background. Molecular phylogenetic studies on scleractinian corals have shown that most taxa are not reflective of their evolutionary histories. Based principally on gross morphology, traditional taxonomy suffers from the lack of well-defined and homologous characters that can sufficiently describe...