New records of stony corals from the Philippines previously known from peripheral areas of the Indo-Pacific

New Philippine records of coral species are described here namely Cantharellus noumeae Hoeksema & Best, 1984; Stylophora kuehlmanni Scheer & Pillai, 1983; and Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998. Stylophora danae Milne Edwards & Haime, is also added again to the Philippi...

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Main Authors: Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Capili, Emmi B.
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Published: Animo Repository 2004
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3508
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Institution: De La Salle University
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Summary:New Philippine records of coral species are described here namely Cantharellus noumeae Hoeksema & Best, 1984; Stylophora kuehlmanni Scheer & Pillai, 1983; and Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998. Stylophora danae Milne Edwards & Haime, is also added again to the Philippine inventory to update previous lists. These species were previously reported only from areas peripheral to the Indo-West Pacific (IWP). These findings further emphasize the high diversity of coral fauna in the IWP, and in the case of Stylophora, may even suggest a shift of the genus' center of diversity from the Red Sea to the IWP. © National University of Singapore.