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ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA
卷 42, 期 2, 页码 201-212出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00575.x
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- Sao Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Australian Research Council (ARC) via the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC CoE)
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
- Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- New Zealand's Ministry of Fisheries
- New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Sciences
Kitahara, M.V., Cairns, S.D., Stolarski, J. & Miller, D.J. (2012). Deltocyathiidae, an early-diverging family of Robust corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Zoologica Scripta, 00, 000000. Over the last decade, molecular phylogenetics has called into question some fundamental aspects of coral systematics. Within the Scleractinia, most families composed exclusively by zooxanthellate species are polyphyletic on the basis of molecular data, and the second most speciose coral family, the Caryophylliidae (most members of which are azooxanthellate), is an unnatural grouping. As part of the process of resolving taxonomic affinities of caryophylliids', here a new Robust' scleractinian family (Deltocyathiidae fam. n.) is proposed on the basis of combined molecular (CO1 and 28S rDNA) and morphological data, accommodating the early-diverging clade of traditional caryophylliids (represented today by the genus Deltocyathus). Whereas this family captures the full morphological diversity of the genus Deltocyathus, one species, Deltocyathus magnificus, is an outlier in terms of molecular data, and groups with the Complex coral family Turbinoliidae. Ultrastructural data, however, place D.magnificus within Deltocyathiidae fam. nov. Unfortunately, limited ultrastructural data are as yet available for turbinoliids, but D.magnificus may represent the first documented case of morphological convergence at the microstructural level among scleractinian corals. Marcelo V.Kitahara, Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de SAo Paulo, SAo SebastiAo, S.P. 11600-000, Brazil. E-mail:kitahara@usp.br
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