Taxonomy and species boundaries in the coral genus Favia Milne Edwards and Haime, 1857 (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Thailand revealed by morphological and genetic data

Kongjandtre, Narinratana; Ridgway, Tyrone; Cook, Lyn G.; Huelsken, Thomas; Budd, Ann F.; Høegh-Guldberg, Ove

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“…(; see also Kitahara et al ., ), which led to the development of morphological characters that support the major clades and subclades (Budd & Stolarski, , ). Thus far, about 20 published papers written by over three dozen contributors, focusing on the phylogeny and classification of this clade, have helped stabilize its taxonomy (Dai & Horng, ; Fukami & Nomura, ; Huang et al ., , , ,b; Benzoni et al ., ; Carlon et al ., ; Arrigoni et al ., , ,c, , ,b; Budd et al ., ; Kongjandtre et al ., ; Schwartz, Budd & Carlon, ; Benzoni, ; Isomura, Nozawa & Fukami, ; this study). However, a number of taxa remain to be revised because of data limitation, including Australogyra , Boninastrea , Erythrastrea , Mycedium , Pectinia , and Physophyllia of Merulinidae, as well as Echinomorpha , Echinophyllia , and Oxypora of Lobophylliidae.…”

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Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

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Lobophylliidae is a family-level clade of corals within the 'robust' lineage of Scleractinia. It comprises species traditionally classified as Indo-Pacific 'mussids', 'faviids', and 'pectiniids'. Following detailed revisions of the closely related families Merulinidae, Mussidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae, this monograph focuses on the taxonomy of Lobophylliidae. Specifically, we studied 44 of a total of 54 living lobophylliid species from all 11 genera based on an integrative analysis of colony, corallite, and subcorallite morphology with molecular sequence data. By examining coral skeletal features at three distinct levelsmacromorphology, micromorphology, and microstructurewe built a morphological matrix comprising 46 characters. Data were analysed via maximum parsimony and transformed onto a robust molecular phylogeny inferred using two nuclear (histone H3 and internal transcribed spacers) and one mitochondrial (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) DNA loci. The results suggest that micromorphological characters exhibit the lowest level of homoplasy within Lobophylliidae. Molecular and morphological trees show that Symphyllia, Parascolymia, and Australomussa should be considered junior synonyms of Lobophyllia, whereas Lobophyllia pachysepta needs to be transferred to Acanthastrea. Our analyses also lend strong support to recent revisions of Acanthastrea, which has been reorganized into five separate genera (Lobophyllia, Acanthastrea, Homophyllia, Sclerophyllia, and Micromussa), and to the establishment of Australophyllia. Cynarina and the monotypic Moseleya remain unchanged, and there are insufficient data to redefine Oxypora, Echinophyllia, and Echinomorpha. Finally, all lobophylliid genera are diagnosed under the phylogenetic classification system proposed here, which will facilitate the placement of extinct taxa on the scleractinian tree of life.

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Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

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“…Here, we show that morphologically Madrepora favus Forskål falls well within the large clade of Indo‐Pacific Favia , corroborating molecular results that show that these species are closely related (Fukami et al ., , ; Huang et al ., ; Kongjandtre et al ., ). However, three major issues need to be addressed.…”

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

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Modern coral taxonomy has begun to resolve many long‐standing problems in traditional systematics stemming from its reliance on skeletal macromorphology. By integrating examinations of colony, corallite, and subcorallite morphology with the molecular sequence data that have proliferated in the last decade, many taxa spread across the scleractinian tree of life have been incorporated into a rigorous classification underpinned by greater phylogenetic understanding. This monograph focuses on one of the most challenging clades recovered to date – its disarray epitomized by the informal name ‘Bigmessidae’. This group of predominantly Indo‐Pacific species previously comprised families Merulinidae, Faviidae, Pectiniidae, and Trachyphylliidae, but in a recent study these have been incorporated within Merulinidae. We studied 84 living merulinid species by examining morphological traits at three different scales of coral skeletal structure − macromorphology, micromorphology, and microstructure − to construct a morphological matrix comprising 44 characters. Data were analysed via maximum parsimony and also transformed onto a robust molecular phylogeny under the parsimony and maximum likelihood criteria. Comparisons amongst morphological character types suggest that although many characters at every scale are homoplastic, some to a greater extent than others, several can aid in distinguishing genus‐level clades. Our resulting trees and character analyses form the basis of a revised classification that spans a total of 139 species contained within 24 genera. The tree topologies necessitate the synonymization of Barabattoia as Dipsastraea, and Phymastrea as Favites. Furthermore, Astrea and Coelastrea are resurrected, and one new genus, Paramontastraea Huang & Budd gen. nov., is described. All the genera in Merulinidae, along with the monotypic Montastraeidae and Diploastraeidae, are diagnosed based on the characters examined. The integrative classification system proposed here will form the framework for more accurate biodiversity estimates and guide the taxonomic placement of extinct species. © 2014 The Linnean Society of London

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“…Calice and valley width always directly proportional to ratio was 1:0,25%, and the value for calice and valley width on C. lacrymalis was > 30mm (Budd and Stolarski, 2009). Cynarina lacrymalis is a large coral polyps that have the largest calice and valley width in Famili Mussidae compared to Genus Favia which had ranges between 9-15mm (Kongjandtre et al, 2012).…”

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“…Calice relief on C. lacrymalis was classified to a very high category which was > 10 mm (Budd and Stolarski, 2009). Calice form is influenced by calice width, which the wider a calice, then the smaller its relief (Kongjandtre et al, 2012;Huang et al, 2014).…”

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“…Generally, there has no pali in Family Mussidae like species Scolymia cubensis, Scolymia vitiensi, Favia speciosa, and Favia cf.lizardensis, but there are exceptions to C. lacrymalis becausethis unique coral has septal and welldeveloped pali (Budd and Stolarski, 2009;Kongjandtre et al, 2012). Character to differenciate between C. lacrymalis with A. deshayesiana is Costae Dentation (CD).…”

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Acanthophyllia deshayesiana (Michelin, 1850) Coral Species Is Not Synonym With Cynarina lacrymalis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

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Taxonomy and species boundaries in the coral genus Favia Milne Edwards and Haime, 1857 (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Thailand revealed by morphological and genetic data

Cited by 11 publications

References 59 publications

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

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

Acanthophyllia deshayesiana (Michelin, 1850) Coral Species Is Not Synonym With Cynarina lacrymalis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

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