New records of stony corals from the Philippines previously known from peripheral areas of the Indo-Pacific

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Biology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volume

52

Issue

2

First Page

285

Last Page

288

Publication Date

12-31-2004

Abstract

New Philippine records of coral species are described here namely Cantharellus noumeae Hoeksema & Best, 1984; Stylophora kuehlmanni Scheer & Pillai, 1983; and Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998. Stylophora danae Milne Edwards & Haime, is also added again to the Philippine inventory to update previous lists. These species were previously reported only from areas peripheral to the Indo-West Pacific (IWP). These findings further emphasize the high diversity of coral fauna in the IWP, and in the case of Stylophora, may even suggest a shift of the genus' center of diversity from the Red Sea to the IWP. © National University of Singapore.

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Disciplines

Biology

Keywords

Scleractinia--Philippines; Scleractinia--Indo-Pacific Region

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