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Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health of Ilhas Selvagens, Portugal [PDF]

, 2016
In September 2015, National Geographic's Pristine Seas project, in conjunction with the Instituto Universitário-Portugal, The Waitt Institute, the University of Western Australia, and partners conducted a comprehensive assessment of the rarely surveyed ...
A. Estep, Alan M. Friedlander, C. Thompson, E. J. Gonçalves, Enric Ballesteros, Enric Sala, J. J. Meeuwig, M. Shepard, P. Rose, S. Clemente   +9 more
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Biodiversity of Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915) on coral rubble at two contrasting cold-water coral reef settings [PDF]

, 2015
The authors would like to thank Bill Richardson (Master), the crew of the RRS James Cook, Will Handley and the Holland-I ROV team. We also thank all the specialists in taxonomy that provided important help with identification of species: Professor Paul ...
Henry, Lea-Anne, Kazanidis, Georgios, Roberts, J. Murray, Witte, Ursula F. M.   +3 more
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The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Background Scleractinian corals are currently a focus of major interest because of their ecological importance and the uncertain fate of coral reefs in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressure.
Stolarski Jarosław, Kitahara Marcelo V, Miller David J, Cairns Stephen D, Mazur Maciej, Meibom Anders   +5 more
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Species Delimitation of Hexacorallia and Octocorallia Around Iceland Using Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA and Proteome Fingerprinting

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Cold-water corals build up reef structures or coral gardens and play an important role for many organisms in the deep sea. Climate change, deep-sea mining, and bottom trawling are severely compromising these ecosystems, making it all the more important ...
Severin A. Korfhage, Sven Rossel, Saskia Brix, Catherine S. McFadden, Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Pedro Martínez Arbizu   +6 more
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Dataset of the complete mitogenomes of Galaxea (Scleractinia: Euphyllidae). [PDF]

Data Brief
Galaxea is a genus of colonial stony corals that are widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. According to the differences of microbasic p-mastigophore (MpM) nematocysts and mitochondrial haplotype, four types (type S, type H, type M and type S+) were identified in this genus.
Lu Z, Li L, Lu Z, Fu C, Wang J, Wang Y.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Potential Invasive Indo‐Pacific Acropora in a Coral Reef of Venezuela: A Contribution to Their Morphological and Molecular Knowledge [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We report the first record of a non‐native hermatypic coral in Venezuela, exhibiting biological traits characteristic of invasive species. The coral is a member of the genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae), native to the Indo‐Pacific. This non‐native petrous coral occurred in a reef of the Morrocoy National Park, in the southern Caribbean.
Villamizar G. E, Jaspe R, Yranzo‐Duque A, Pérez‐Benítez J, Sulbarán Y, Narciso S, Rujano‐Espinoza B, Pereira C, Goite M, Pujol F.   +9 more
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The type of Aplosmilia vidali Angelis d’Ossat, 1905 (Scleractinia; Early Cretaceous) [PDF]

, 2011
Se revisa la especie de coral escleractinio Aplosmilia vidali Angelis d’Ossat, 1905 del Cretácico inferior y se le asigna un lectotipo. La forma solitaria pertenece al género Tiarasmilia y es probablemente un sinónimo anterior a la especie-tipo de este ...
Löser, H.
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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3‐dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent challenges therein ...
Bryan Wilson, Peter J. Edmunds
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Remarks on the genus Angelismilia Reig, 1988 (Scleractinia, Early Cretaceous) [PDF]

, 2015
Puntualizaciones sobre el género Angelismilia Reig. 1988 (Scleractinia, Cretácico temprano). Se revisa el género AngelismiliaReig, 1988, un coral del Albiense temprano, en base a un sintipo y a material adicional procedentedel área de los tipos ...
Löser, H.
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Environmental DNA as a Tool for the Assessment of Coral (Anthozoa) Composition in the Chagos Archipelago

Environmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 1, January–February 2026.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding using ITS2 markers reliably recovered 18 coral genera, with strong overlap but also complementary detections compared to benthic transect surveys. eDNA uniquely identified several cryptic genera, while some common genera were only recovered by traditional surveys, highlighting method‐specific biases.
Boxian Wen, Rosalie Dowell, Margaux Steyaert, Catherine E. I. Head   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source