Nuclear and mtDNA genes suggest polyphyletic origin of species in the genus Euphyllidae

• Main Authors: Luzon, Katrina S., Licuanan, Wilfredo Roehl Y., Lagman, Ma. Carmen A., Chen, Chaolun Allen, Lin, Mei-Fang
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Scleractinia—Classification; Marine Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7731
• Institution: De La Salle University

Veron (2000) devised a scheme to identify species in the family Euphyllidae that deviates from the traditional approach to coral taxonomy. For this family, soft tissue features were defined to be more crucial than corallum features in species identification. Polyp morphology, however, may not be suf...