Resurrecting a subgenus to genus: Molecular phylogeny of Euphyllia and Fimbriaphyllia (order Scleractinia; family Euphyllidae; clade V)

• Main Authors: Luzon, Katrina S., Lin, Mei Fang, Lagman, Ma. Carmen A., Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Chen, Chaolun Allen
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Scleractinia > Phylogeny—Molecular aspects; Phylogeny—Molecular aspects; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3528; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4530/type/native/viewcontent/peerj.4074
• Institution: De La Salle University

Background. The corallum is crucial in building coral reefs and in diagnosing systematic relationships in the order Scleractinia. However, molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed a paraphyly in a majority of traditional families and genera among Scleractinia showing that other biological attributes...