Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 277-355

  Huang, Danwei ^a,b,c   Benzoni, Francesca ^d   Fukami, Hironobu ^e   Knowlton, Nancy ^b,f   Smith, Nathan D ^f,g   Budd, Ann F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Faviidae; Faviina; Indo Pacific; Integrative taxonomy; Morphological phylogenetics; Pectiniidae; Systematics; Trachyphylliidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901240265     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12140     Document Type: Article

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