Taxon name selected

Australogyra zelli (Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best, 1977)

Status

Valid species

Target Taxon

Australogyra zelli (Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best, 1977)

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Authority reference(s):

Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. and Wijsman-Best, M. (1977). Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. (Townsville, Australia: Australian Institute of Marine Science), 3:1-233. (For species details see pp. 110-114 and Figs. 214-222)

Taxonomic note: Very distinct species

Taxonomic reference(s):

Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. and Wijsman-Best, M. (1977). Scleractinia of eastern Australia. Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. (Townsville, Australia: Australian Institute of Marine Science), 3:1-233.

Veron, J.E.N. (2000a). Corals of the World. Townsville: Australian Institute of Marine Science. Volumes 1-3. 1410pp.

Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D. and Budd, A.F. (2014). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171(2):277-355.

Arrigoni, R., Berumen, M.L., Terraneo, T.I., Caragnano, A., Bouwmeester, J. and Benzoni, F. (2014). Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its phylogenetic relationships. Systematics and Biodiversity 13(2):140-163. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2014.978915.

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