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Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C. "Nomenclatural notes on the genus Favia (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviina: Faviidae)." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 131, no. 1 (January 2018): 197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2988/18-00006.

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Reskiwati, Laurentius X. T. Lalamentik, and Unstain N. W. J. Rembet. "Study on the Taxonomy of Genus Favia (Oken, 1815) at the Reef Flats of Kampung Ambong Village in Likupang Timur District, Minahasa Utara." JURNAL ILMIAH PLATAX 6, no. 1 (May 18, 2018): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.35800/jip.6.1.2018.19584.

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Coral reefs in the world occupy around 250.000 km2 of coastal areas and provide habitats for approximately 25 % of marine species. Reefs are usually reognise as marine rain forest (Knowlton et al., 2010 in Andi Haerul, 2014). Indonesia has a high level of hard corals diversity, and, at least 80 genera consist of 74 % of 800 coral spesies of the world could be found here.Favia (Oken, 1815) is one genus of Faviidae. Faviidae is one of the largest coral family, after Acroporidae. Coral species of Faviidae live in a colony. Generally, the main characteristic of Favia has plocoid shape corallite. Data collection has been conducted on reef flats of Kampung ambong Village in Likupang Timur District of Minahasa Utara Regency. Visual survey method was done at 3 – 5 meters depths during high tide rising. This research was focused on genus Favia (Oken, 1815) of Faviidae family.Five species of hard corals of genus Favia were founded in this study,i.e Favia speciosa (Dana, 1846), Favia favus (Forskål, 1775), Favia truncatus (Veron, 2000), Favia pallida (Dana, 1846) dan Favia matthaii (Vaughan, 1918). These species have similar characteristics in some parts, i.e septum, corallite form and corralite diameter.Keywords: Taxonomy, Hard Coral, Favia (Oken, 1815) ABSTRAK Terumbu karang di dunia memiliki luas sekitar 250.000 km2 dan merupakan tempat tinggal bagi 25% spesies laut sehingga terumbu karang disebut juga rain forest laut (Knowlton et al. 2010 dalam Andi Haerul, 2014). Indonesia memiliki tingkat keanekaragaman spesies karang yang tinggi yaitu kurang lebih 80 genera meliputi 74% dari 800 spesies yang ada di dunia.Karang Favia (Oken, 1815) merupakan salah satu genus dari famili karang Faviidae yang menjadi salah satu famili terbesar setelah Acroporidae. Spesies dari famili Faviidae hidup secara berkoloni. Ciri-ciri umum dari genus ini adalah bentuk koralit plocoid. Pengambilan data dilakukan di Desa Kampung Ambong Kecamatan Likupang Timur, Minahasa Utara. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode survei jelajah pada kedalaman 3-5 meter pada saat terjadi pasang naik. Karang yang diamati adalah famili Faviidae, genus Favia (Oken, 1815).Pada penelitian ini ditemukan lima spesies karang genus Favia, yaitu Favia speciosa (Dana, 1846), Favia favus (Forskål, 1775), Favia truncatus (Veron, 2000), Favia pallida (Dana, 1846) dan Favia matthaii (Vaughan, 1918). Spesies ini memiliki karakteristik yang hampir mirip pada beberapa bagian seperti septa, bentuk koralit, serta diameter koralit.Kata Kunci: Taksonomi, Karang Batu, Favia (Oken, 1815)

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Benzoni, Francesca, Roberto Arrigoni, Fabrizio Stefani, and Michel Pichon. "Phylogeny of the coral genus Plesiastrea (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)." Contributions to Zoology 80, no. 4 (September 30, 2011): 231–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08004002.

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Until coral molecular phylogenies were published, the genus Plesiastrea was traditionally part of the family Faviidae and considered by several authors to be closely related to the genus Montastraea. However, genetic data has shown that Plesiastrea versipora, the genus type species, is evolutionarily distinct within the Robust clade of the Scleractinia and does not belong to the large clade grouping most representatives of the families Faviidae, including Montastraea, Mussidae, Merulinidae, Trachyphylliidae, and Pectiniidae. Instead, P. versipora is closely related to non reef-dwelling taxa currently ascribed to the Oculinidae (Cyathelia axillaris) and Caryophylliidae (Trochocyathus efateensis). However, no discussion on the morphologic features of P. versipora compared to other taxa has been published yet. Moreover, no information is available about the phylogenetic placement of Plesiastrea devantieri, the only other species in the genus. The phylogeny of both Plesiastrea species was addressed through molecular analyses (COI and rDNA) and morphological analysis. Morphological differences between the two species included number of septa, cycles of vertical structures in front of the septa and septal micromorphology. On the basis of these data and nuclear and mitochondrial markers, P. devantieri belongs to the Faviidae-Merulinidae-Pectiniidae-Trachyphylliidae clade (Clade XVII sensu Fukami et al., 2008) and is most closely related to Goniastrea aspera and G. palauensis. The type species of the genus Goniastrea, G. retiformis, however, is not closely related to either G. aspera and G. palauensis, or to P. devantieri. Taxonomic implications of these findings and morphologic affinities between the two species and closely related taxa are discussed.

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Johnson, Kenneth G. "Faunal Turnover and Phylogeny of Neogene Caribbean Brain Corals (Scleractinia: Faviidae)." Paleontological Society Special Publications 8 (1996): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200002021.

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Chen, Wenjing, Aiyi Zhu, Fei Tong, Dandan Li, Xinling Long, and PiMao Chen. "The complete mitochondrial genome of the Favites halicora (Favites, Faviidae, Scleractinia)." Mitochondrial DNA Part B 4, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 939–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1579064.

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Mondal, Tamal, C. Raghunathan, and K. Venkataraman. "Description of Favites monticularis sp. nov. (Faviidae) off North Andaman Islands, India." Journal of Threatened Taxa 5, no. 10 (June 26, 2013): 4510–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.o3224.4510-3.

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Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C. "Geographic and stratigraphic distributions of the Caribbean species of Cladocora (Scleractinia, Faviidae)." Facies 51, no. 1-4 (September 2, 2005): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0004-6.

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Latypov, Yu Ya. "Favia camranensis sp. n. (Scleractinia: Faviidae), a new coral species from Southern Vietnam." Russian Journal of Marine Biology 39, no. 3 (May 2013): 223–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1063074013030085.

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Weil, Ernesto, and Wilma L. Vargas. "Comparative aspects of sexual reproduction in the Caribbean coral genus Diploria (Scleractinia: Faviidae)." Marine Biology 157, no. 2 (November 11, 2009): 413–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1328-5.

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FUKAMI, Hironobu. "A reason of taxonomic classication of the families Mussidae and Faviidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)." Journal of the Japanese Coral Reef Society 15, no. 1 (2013): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3755/jcrs.15.107.

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MANGUBHAI, SANGEETA. "Reproductive ecology of the scleractinian coralsEchinopora gemmaceaandLeptoria phrygia(Faviidae) on equatorial reefs in Kenya." Invertebrate Reproduction & Development 53, no. 2 (January 2009): 67–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2009.9652292.

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Arrigoni, Roberto, Fabrizio Stefani, Michel Pichon, Paolo Galli, and Francesca Benzoni. "Molecular phylogeny of the Robust clade (Faviidae, Mussidae, Merulinidae, and Pectiniidae): An Indian Ocean perspective." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65, no. 1 (October 2012): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.001.

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Munksgaard, Niels C., Yasmin Antwertinger, and David L. Parry. "Laser Ablation ICP-MS Analysis of Faviidae Corals for Environmental Monitoring of a Tropical Estuary." Environmental Chemistry 1, no. 3 (2004): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/en04058.

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Environmental Context: The composition of calcium carbonate in annual skeletal growth bands reflects the environmental conditions in which coral grows, enabling their use as long-term bio-monitors and archives of environmental conditions. Such archives will provide a baseline against which recent and future pollutant levels can be compared. Abstract: An LA-ICP-MS linescan procedure has been developed for the determination of sub-millimetre scale elemental compositions of Al, Ba, Cu, La, Mg, Mn, Pb, Rb, Sr, U, and Zn in corallite walls of Faviidae corals, with the aim of establishing coral-based pollution monitoring in a tropical estuary. By selectively analyzing corallite walls, analytical signals from voids, organic, and detrital phases were minimized. Although the relative ablation yields of coral aragonite and NIST glass calibration standards differed and was dependent on pulse energy, accurate internal-standard normalized results could be verified for Ba, Cu, La, Mn, Pb, Sr, U, and Zn through the use of a secondary carbonate standard (MACS-1) and comparison with solution ICP-MS analysis. Signal smoothing and pre-acquisition surface cleaning procedures were applied. Corallite wall compositions varied by factors of up to five over distances of a few hundred micrometres. Significantly, the compositional variations along and perpendicular to the coral growth axis were of similar magnitude on a sub-millimetre scale. Consequently, compositional variations along the growth axis could not be interpreted chronologically on a sub-annual time scale. However, compositional records based on multi-annual integrated line scans should still reflect long-term environmental influences.

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Budd, Ann F., James D. Woodell, Danwei Huang, and James S. Klaus. "Evolution of the Caribbean subfamily Mussinae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviidae): transitions between solitary and colonial forms." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17, no. 18 (January 24, 2019): 1581–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1541932.

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Maboloc, E. A., E. A. Jamodiong, and R. D. Villanueva. "Reproductive biology and larval development of the scleractinian coralsFavites colemaniandF. abdita(Faviidae) in northwestern Philippines." Invertebrate Reproduction & Development 60, no. 1 (September 21, 2015): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2015.1086829.

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Humes, Arthur G. "Two new species ofCerioxynus (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) parasitic in corals (Scleractinia: Faviidae) in the South Pacific." Systematic Parasitology 8, no. 3 (August 1986): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00009887.

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Lam, KKY. "Sexual reproduction of a low-temperature tolerant coral Oulastrea crispata (Scleractinia, Faviidae) in Hong Kong, China." Marine Ecology Progress Series 205 (2000): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps205101.

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Haslun, Joshua A., Kevin B. Strychar, Gregory Buck, and Paul W. Sammarco. "Coral Bleaching Susceptibility Is Decreased following Short-Term (1–3 Year) Prior Temperature Exposure and Evolutionary History." Journal of Marine Biology 2011 (2011): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/406812.

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Coral exposed to short periods of temperature stress (≥1.0°C above mean monthly maximum) and/or increased frequencies of high temperatures may bolster resilience to global warming associated with climate change. We comparedMontastraea cavernosa(Linnaeus, 1767; Cnidaria, Scleractinia, Faviidae) from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS). Thermal stress has been reported frequently within the FKNMS; however, corals in the FGBNMS experience nominal exposures to similar stressors. Corals were exposed to three temperatures (27°C, 31°C, and 35°C) for 72 h. Colonies from the FKNMS lost significantly fewer viable and necrotic zooxanthellae under conditions of acute stress (35°C) than the FGBNMS colonies. This indicates that the FKNMS corals are less temperature-sensitive than those in the FGBNMS. The observed differences point to greater prior temperature exposure and adaptation in the former versus the latter site when correlated to previous years of thermal exposure.

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Budd, Ann F., and Jarosław Stolarski. "Corallite wall and septal microstructure in scleractinian reef corals: Comparison of molecular clades within the family Faviidae." Journal of Morphology 272, no. 1 (November 8, 2010): 66–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10899.

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Budd, Ann F., Thomas A. Stemann, and Robert H. Stewart. "Eocene Caribbean reef corals: a unique fauna from the Gatuncillo Formation of Panama." Journal of Paleontology 66, no. 4 (July 1992): 570–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000024446.

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Forty-three species of 25 genera are described in a collection of 170 large, massive reef corals from the upper Eocene Gatuncillo Formation near Lago Alahuela in central Panama. Comparisons with type material for other Eocene Caribbean reef corals suggest that 27 of these species are new. Twenty-four of these species are named herein. Like other Eocene Caribbean reef-coral faunas, the fauna is rich in Astrocoenia, Actinacis, and Astreopora; however, unlike other faunas, plocoid and meandroid members of the family Faviidae (e.g., Montastraea, Agathiphyllia, Goniastrea, and Colpophyllia) are abundant. Also present are the oldest known representatives of the genera Meandrina, Coscinaraea, Alveopora, Heliopora, and Pocillopora, as well as the only recorded occurrences of Coscinaraea and Cyathoseris from the Caribbean. Comparisons with Oligocene and Recent Caribbean reef-coral faunas suggest that the generic composition of Cenozoic Caribbean reefs became established during the Eocene. With exception of the family Mussidae, much of the post-Oligocene history of the Caribbean is one of extinction at the generic level (19 of the 28 Eocene genera became extinct) and proliferation of species within the surviving genera.

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Acosta, A., and S. Zea. "Sexual reproduction of the reef coral Montastreacavernosa (Scleractinia: Faviidae) in the Santa Marta area, Caribbean coast of Colombia." Marine Biology 128, no. 1 (April 24, 1997): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050077.

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Nurhaliza, Siti, Muhlis Muhlis, Imam Bachtiar, and Didik Santoso. "STRUKTUR KOMUNITAS KARANG KERAS (SCLERACTINIA) DI ZONA INTERTIDAL PANTAI MANDALIKA LOMBOK TENGAH." Jurnal Biologi Tropis 19, no. 2 (December 30, 2019): 302. http://dx.doi.org/10.29303/jbt.v19i2.1390.

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Abstrak: Zona intertidal merupakan daerah pantai yang terletak antara pasang tertinggi dan surut terendah. Salah satu ekosistem yang terdapat di kawasan intertidal adalah ekosistem terumbu karang. Terumbu karang merupakan salah satu ekosistem laut yang menjadi sumber kehidupan bagi berbagai biota laut sehingga keberadaannya sangat penting, baik dari segi ekologis maupun ekonomis. Pantai Mandalika memiliki ekosistem terumbu karang dengan zona intertidal yang cukup luas. Pesatnya perkembangan wisata di Pantai Mandalika secara tidak langsung akan mempengaruhi kehidupan terumbu karang. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menyediakan data dan informasi terkini mengenai kondisi keanekaragaman karang keras di zona intertidal Pantai Mandalika yang mencakup komposisi spesies, famili dan bentuk pertumbuhan, serta indeks ekologi (indeks keanekaragaman, keseragaman dan dominansi spesies). Pengambilan data dilakukan pada bulan Juni 2019 selama periode surut terendah di kawasan intertidal. Metode yang digunakan yaitu metode Underwater Photo Transect (UPT). Hasil penelitian ini menemukan 30 spesies karang keras yang termasuk dalam 8 famili di zona intertidal Pantai Mandalika. Favites paraflexuosa adalah spesies yang paling banyak ditemukan di daerah tersebut dengan persentase 22%. Famili Faviidae (79%) memiliki persentase terbesar di semua transek. Ada 5 jenis bentuk pertumbuhan karang keras di daerah yang 87% di antaranya adalah bentuk karang masif. Nilai indeks keanekaragaman Shannon-Wiener adalah 2,5 dengan indeks keseragaman 0,8, dan indeks dominansi 0,1.Kata kunci: komunitas, terumbu karang, zona intertidal, keanekaragaman, Pantai Mandalika.Abstract: The intertidal zone is a coastal area located between the highest and lowest tides. One of the ecosystems in the intertidal area is the coral reef ecosystem. The coral reef is one of the marine ecosystems which is a source of life for various marine biota so that its existence is very important, both in ecological and economic terms. Mandalika Beach has a coral reef ecosystem with a fairly extensive intertidal zone. The rapid development of tourism in Mandalika Beach will indirectly affect the life of coral reefs. This research to provide data for the existing condition of hard corals diversity in the area for better understanding of future research. This research covers the species, family and life form composition, and ecologycal indices (diversity, species equitability, and dominance indices). The research was conducted on June 2019 during the lowest tide period and carried out with a Underwater Photo Transect (UPT) method. The results revealed that Mandalika’s Intertidal Zone had 30 species of hard corals that belongs to 8 families. Favites paraflexuosa was the most abundant coral in the area with 22% of community composition. The Faviidae family (79%) had the largest percentage in all transects. There were 5 type life forms of hard corals in the area which 92% of them were coral massive type. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index score was 2.5 with equitability index 0.8, and dominance index is 0.1. Keywords: community coral reef, intertidal zone, diversity, Mandalika Beach.

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Schiller, Christian. "Ecology of the Symbiotic Coral Cladocora caespitosa (L.) (Faviidae, Scleractinia) in the Bay of Piran (Adriatic Sea): II. Energy Budget." Marine Ecology 14, no. 3 (September 1993): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1993.tb00481.x.

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Schiller, Christian. "Ecology of the Symbiotic Coral Cladocora caespitosa (L.) (Faviidae, Scleractinia) in the Bay of Piran (Adriatic Sea): I. Distribution and Biometry." Marine Ecology 14, no. 3 (September 1993): 205–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.1993.tb00480.x.

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Huang, Danwei, Rudolf Meier, Peter A. Todd, and Loke Ming Chou. "More evidence for pervasive paraphyly in scleractinian corals: Systematic study of Southeast Asian Faviidae (Cnidaria; Scleractinia) based on molecular and morphological data." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50, no. 1 (January 2009): 102–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.012.

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Moradi, Mahdi, Reza Malekzadeh-Viayeh, and Javad Eshaghi-Rad. "Biodiversity of scleractinian corals in the reefs of Qeshm and Larak Islands of the Persian Gulf, in association with environmental variables." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94, no. 5 (April 8, 2014): 907–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315414000411.

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Diversity of hard corals is investigated on the reefs of two Iranian islands, Qeshm and Larak, located in the Persian Gulf. The corals were sampled and photographed and their percentage cover was estimated by diving in June 2008 and February 2009. Thirty-eight coral species belonging to 20 genera and nine families were identified, of which three species are new records from the Gulf. Coral diversity was higher in Larak Island, and in total, Acroporidae and Faviidae were the most diverse coral families. Acropora (83%) had the highest percentage cover in Larak Island, while the maximum percentage cover in Qeshm Island was for Porites (52.96%). Canonical correspondence analysis distinctly plotted the study sites against environmental variables. Salinity and pH were the most effective variables on the coral diversity, and had positive correlations with the frequency of several species including Pocillopora damicornis, Platygyra acuta and Acanthastrea maxima, while they had negative correlation with another group of other corals, including Plesiastrea devantieri, Acropora downingi and Psammocora digitata (P < 0.01). Water clarity had positive correlations with some coral species, including Cyphastrea serailia and Coscinaraeamonile, and negative correlations with other species such as Leptastrea transversa and Acropora arabensis. Diversity of a number of corals mainly Porites lutea and Cyphastrea chalcidicum had high affinity with the water temperature. The results of this study supported the existence of diversified coral communities in Iranian islands, while showing that their spatial and temporal distribution can be affected by environmental variables.

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Lam, KKY. "Early growth of a pioneer recruited coral Oulastrea crispata (Scleractinia, Faviidae) on PFA-concrete blocks in a marine park in Hong Kong, China." Marine Ecology Progress Series 205 (2000): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps205113.

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Mishima, Mari, Hodaka Kawahata, Atsushi Suzuki, Mayuri Inoue, Takashi Okai, and Akio Omura. "Reconstruction of the East China Sea palaeoenvironment at 16âka by comparison of fossil and modern Faviidae corals from the Ryukyus, southwestern Japan." Journal of Quaternary Science 24, no. 8 (December 2009): 928–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1268.

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Budd, Ann F., Thomas A. Stemann, and Kenneth G. Johnson. "Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to Recent Caribbean reef corals." Journal of Paleontology 68, no. 5 (September 1994): 951–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000026585.

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To document evolutionary patterns in late Cenozoic Caribbean reef corals, we compiled composite stratigraphic ranges of 49 genera and 175 species using Neogene occurrences in the Cibao Valley sequence of the northern Dominican Republic and faunal lists for 24 Miocene to Recent sites across the Caribbean region. This new compilation benefits in particular from increased sampling at late Miocene to early Pleistocene sites and from increased resolution and greater taxonomic consistency provided by the use of morphometric procedures in species recognition.Preliminary examination and quantitative analysis of origination and extinction patterns suggest that a major episode of turnover took place between 4 and 1 Ma during Plio-Pleistocene time. During the episode, extinctions were approximately simultaneous in species of all reef-building families, except the Mussidae. Most strongly affected were the Pocilloporidae (Stylophora and Pocillopora), Agariciidae (Pavona and Gardineroseris), and free-living members of the Faviidae and Meandrinidae. At the genus level, mono- and paucispecific as well as more speciose genera became regionally extinct. Many of the extinct genera live today in the Indo-Pacific region, and some are important components of modern eastern Pacific reefs. Global extinctions were concentrated in free-living genera. During the turnover episode, no new genera or higher taxa arose. Instead, new species originated within the surviving Caribbean genera at approximately the same time as the extinctions, including many dominant modern Caribbean reef-building corals (e.g., Acropora palmata and the Montastraea annularis complex).Excluding this episode, the taxonomic composition of the Caribbean reef-coral fauna remained relatively unchanged during the Neogene. Minor exceptions include: 1) high originations in the Agariciidae and free-living corals during late Miocene time; and 2) regional or global extinctions of several important Oligocene Caribbean reef builders during early to middle Miocene time.

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Noonan, Sam H. C., and Katharina E. Fabricius. "Ocean acidification affects productivity but not the severity of thermal bleaching in some tropical corals." ICES Journal of Marine Science 73, no. 3 (July 22, 2015): 715–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv127.

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Abstract Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are raising sea surface temperature (SST) and causing ocean acidification (OA). While higher SST increases the frequency of mass coral bleaching events, it is unclear how OA will interact to affect this process. In this study, we combine in situ bleaching surveys around three tropical CO2 seeps with a 2-month two-factor (CO2 and temperature) tank experiment to investigate how OA and SST in combination will affect the bleaching susceptibility of tropical reef corals. Surveys at CO2 seep and control sites during a minor regional bleaching event gave little indication that elevated pCO2 influenced the bleaching susceptibility of the wider coral community, the four most common coral families (Acroporidae, Faviidae, Pocilloporidae, or Poritidae), or the thermally sensitive coral species Seriatopora hystrix. In the tank experiment, sublethal bleaching was observed at 31°C after 5 d in S. hystrix and 12 d in Acropora millepora, whereas controls (28°C) did not bleach. None of the measured proxies for coral bleaching was negatively affected by elevated pCO2 at pHT 7.79 (vs. 7.95 pHT in controls), equivalent to ∼780 µatm pCO2 and an aragonite saturation state of 2.5. On the contrary, high pCO2 benefitted some photophysiological measures (although temperature effects were much stronger than CO2 effects): maximum photosystem II quantum yields and light-limited electron transport rates increased in both species at high pCO2, whereas gross photosynthesis and pigment concentrations increased in S. hystrix at high pCO2. The field and laboratory data in combination suggest that OA levels up to a pHT of 7.8 will have little effect on the sensitivity of tropical corals to thermal bleaching. Indeed, some species appear to be able to utilize the more abundant dissolved inorganic carbon to increase productivity; however, these gains offset only a small proportion of the massive bleaching-related energy losses during thermal stress.

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Vallejo, Martha Yaneth, and José Alberto Acosta Rueda PhD. "Aplicación de indicadores de conocimiento sobre biodiversidad para el diagnóstico y comparación de colecciones biológicas." Nova 3, no. 4 (December 15, 2005): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.22490/24629448.336.

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La mayoría de colecciones biológicas de los museos en Colombia carecen de elementos de diagnóstico, lo que impide analizarlas y determinar su estado en términos cuantitativos y cualitativos. Para suplir esta carencia se proponen indicadores de biodiversidad aplicables a las bases de datos de las colecciones biológicas que permitan a los museos definir sus condiciones, prioridades y registrar su aporte a la biodiversidad. Es así, como existen criterios básicos para elaborar dichos indicadores: validez científica, disponibilidad y fiabilidad de los datos, este último incluye; representatividad, sensibilidad a cambios, sencillez, comparabilidad, relevancia y utilidad entre otros. Estos criterios son necesarios para soportar cada indicador como parte de la hoja metodológica.<p>Los indicadores de conocimiento sobre biodiversidad propuestos sirven para comparar el mismo grupo biológico: (i) entre diferentes colecciones, como el caso de estudio escleractinios del Museo Javeriano – MUJ y Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia- MHNMC; (ii) comparar una colección frente a un total reportado para el país o el mundo. Los indicadores usados fueron los de: representatividad y complementariedad, tanto taxonómica como geográfica, especies en peligro, identificación taxonómica, completitud de datos, intensidad de muestreo e índice de metadatos. Los indicadores utilizados arrojaron los siguientes resultados para la colección del MUJ: especies con las que cuenta, 30 corales hermatípicos; carece de, 52 corales ahermatípicos en muestreos en 3 ecorregiones del país; distribución temporal de colecta, 91.6% de las colectas recientes; distribución espacial de colecta, 6 ecorregiones a lo largo del Caribe colombiano; representatividad taxonómica 50% frente al MHNMC y 26% frente al total reportado en el Caribe; nivel de curatoría, 94.4% de ejemplares identificados hasta especie; especies en amenaza presentes, 17.6%; familia con mas repeticiones, Faviidae y mas representativa, Agariciidae. El uso de indicadores incrementa la utilización y divulgación de la biodiversidad de un país y permite la especialización de la colección a través de la información documentada, permitiendo a los museos generar un diagnostico por colección y establecer prioridades de manejo y optimización de los recursos económicos.</p>

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Guerra, Ramón, Aramis Aparicio, Benjamín Espinosa, and José Julio Casas. "Cobertura y estado de los arrecifes de coral e ictiofauna asociada en Playa Cacique e Isla Mamey, Portobelo, Colón." Revista de Iniciación Científica 5 (November 12, 2019): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33412/rev-ric.v5.0.2364.

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Los arrecifes de coral son comunidades de protección de la zona costera y alimentación de muchas especies. Es importante evaluar el estado de estos, para así poder proteger y mantener la salud de estos ecosistemas tan importantes. Este trabajo se realizó en Playa Cacique e Isla Mamey en Colón (Caribe Panameño), en dos localidades con actividades humanas diferentes. Se realizaron dos salidas al campo con cuatro días de campo con 12 horas en total. En cada estación se establecieron transectos al azar de 10 m de largo perpendiculares a la costa. Los resultados arrojaron buenos porcentajes de coral vivo para ambas áreas de estudio, hubo una diversidad de 14 especies de corales, siendo la familia Faviidae la más diversa. En comparación realizada se notó un 41% de coral vivo en la estación de Mamey, pero Cacique posee más vegetación. Además, Cacique posee 13 de las 14 especies de corales. Los arrecifes, en su mayoría estaban representados por corales fuego en los transectos tres y cuadro de Cacique y uno y dos de Mamey, representadas por aguas someras. Además, el transecto cuatro de Mamey y uno de Cacique presentaron mayor diversidad de especies de corales. En cuanto a la abundancia y diversidad de ictiofauna asociada, no presentó una diferencia significativa entre las dos áreas de estudio, presentando una diversidad de 21 especies y 11 familias, siendo Halichoeres pictus la especie más común, y Labridae la familia más diversa. Realizamos el índice de Simpson para la diversidad de peces en las dos áreas de estudio, dando como resultado: Playa Cacique (0.745) e Isla Mamey (0.812), y la varianza fue de 1.01, teniendo Mamey la mayor diversidad de especies de peces. Como conclusiones, las especies de Coral de fuego se presentan y colonizan las aguas someras de Playa Cacique e Isla Mamey, y esta última zona presentó una alta diversidad de especies de coral, pero los corales de Cacique se mantienen en mejor estado, al tener un ecosistema de manglares que mitiga el sedimento hacia los corales. La especie Halichoeres pictus se presentó en la mayoría de los transectos, debido a su adaptación a aguas con fuertes oleajes. Se debe hacer un esfuerzo para mitigar las actividades antropogénicas de estas dos localidades y aumentar el estudio de los corales y peces asociados en el area.

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Stafford-Smith, MG, and RFG Ormond. "Sediment-rejection mechanisms of 42 species of Australian scleractinian corals." Marine and Freshwater Research 43, no. 4 (1992): 683. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf9920683.

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Mechanisms of sediment rejection by 42 species of Scleractinia from 31 genera, all with wide Indo-Pacific distributions, were investigated in situ and in the laboratory at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. Rejection mechanisms of flat tissues (generally six replicates plus controls) were studied in response to a single rapid influx of 50 mg cm-2 of 70/30% calcium carbonate/quartz sediment of each of four particle sizes: silt (<63 pm), fine sand (63-250 μm), coarse sand (500 μrn to 1 mm), and granules (1-3 mm). Additional observations were made of responses to variations in sediment loads (to a maximum of 1000 mg cm-2) , to individual sediment particles, and to less-dense organic sediment and food, as well as of the effects of tissue angles, colony morphology, and in situ environmental conditions. Ciliary currents, tissue expansion, and mucus entanglement occur in all of the species studied. Direct tentacle manipulation and pulsed partial contraction of the polyp or coenosarc also occur but were not observed in all species. Mesenteries may play a subsidiary or incidental role. Active-rejection mechanisms are consistent within species and, with the principal exception of some Faviidae species, are similar for the congeneric species studied. Species are categorized according to their observed active-rejection capability. This capability is positively correlated with calice size: all species with large calices (> 10 mm in diameter) are capable of rejecting influxes of up to at least 50 mg cm-2 of the tested sediment sizes with comparative ease; those species with small calices (<2.5 mm in diameter), particularly the two Porites species and the three Montipora species, are poor active rejectors; and other species, notably Acropora hyacinthus and Pocillopora darnicornis, though having some active-rejection capability, exhibit morphologies that make active rejection mostly redundant. Species with calices between 2.5 and 10 mm in diameter show more variation, but all very active rejectors in this size class have strong ciliary mechanisms. There are differences in the area of a colony involved in the rejection of sediment influxes, depending on sediment size and density. Rejection of heavy influxes of all sediment sizes is principally restricted to flat or concave surfaces, whereas individual particles of silt and fine sand as well as light influxes of silt and almost neutrally buoyant particles of larger sizes frequently require active rejection from strongly inclined, and even near-vertical, surfaces. The significance of these findings in terms of energy budgets is discussed.

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Kelmanson, I. V. "Molecular Basis and Evolutionary Origins of Color Diversity in Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa (Scleractinia: Faviida)." Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, no. 7 (April 25, 2003): 1125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msg130.

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Chamberland, Valérie F., Skylar Snowden, Kristen L. Marhaver, Dirk Petersen, and Mark J. A. Vermeij. "The reproductive biology and early life ecology of a common Caribbean brain coral, Diploria labyrinthiformis (Scleractinia: Faviinae)." Coral Reefs 36, no. 1 (September 24, 2016): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-016-1504-2.

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Schwartz, Sonja A., Ann F. Budd, and David B. Carlon. "Molecules and fossils reveal punctuated diversification in Caribbean “faviid” corals." BMC Evolutionary Biology 12, no. 1 (2012): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-123.

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Field, S. F., and M. V. Matz. "Retracing Evolution of Red Fluorescence in GFP-Like Proteins from Faviina Corals." Molecular Biology and Evolution 27, no. 2 (September 30, 2009): 225–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msp230.

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van Woesik, R., T. Tomascik, and S. Blake. "Coral assemblages and physico-chemical characteristics of the Whitsunday Islands: evidence of recent community changes." Marine and Freshwater Research 50, no. 5 (1999): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf97046.

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Benthic communities were assessed and 22 environmental variables were monitored at seven leeward localities (L1ŒL7) in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. L1 was near the Proserpine and O’Connell river mouths and L7 ~80 km north of the river mouths. Distinct physico Œchemical and biological gradients were evident. Sparse scleractinian coral communities, dominated by faviids, Montipora spp. and encrusting Porites colonies, were present at L1, L2 and L3, whereas diverse reef-building communities, dominated by Acropora spp., were more common at and beyond L4. The number of coral recruits (age <6 months) did not differ significantly among localities, suggesting that coral recruitment was near random and that the environment shapes the adult community from those recruits. The study demonstrates strong negative relationships between chlorophyll a and the following: percentage coral cover, coral species richness and coral abundance. The reef-building capacities of the coral communities and the extent of Holocene reef development were inconsistent at L2 and L3, which is interpreted as a sign of anthropogenic effects.

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Löser, Hannes, Thomas A. Stemann, and Simon Mitchell. "Oldest scleractinian fauna from Jamaica (Hauterivian, Benbow Inlier)." Journal of Paleontology 83, no. 3 (May 2009): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/08-060.1.

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From the oldest Cretaceous marine sediments of Jamaica, the Copper Limestone within the Devils Racecourse Formation (Benbow Inlier, Clarendon Block), the oldest known coral fauna of the Caribbean is described. the small but diverse fauna encompasses 18 species in 17 genera of the suborders Amphiastraeina, Archeocaeniina, Heterocoeniina, Faviina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina. the fauna contains the first representatives of the suborder Amphiastraeina in the Caribbean and the Americas. One genus of the family Amphiastreidae, Monoaulastrea, and three species—Monoaulastrea rawi, Latusastrea rubrolineata, Camptodocis corralesi—are described as new. the preoccupied coral genus Floria is replaced by the new name Floriastrea. the new fauna shows relationships to faunas from the late Berriasian to late Albian. Most species are shared with the Hauterivian faunas from Georgia in the central Tethys and the Paris Basin in the Boreal, but also with younger faunas such as the Barremian of Central Mexico, the early Aptian of Greece and the early Albian of the Bisbee Basin (Northern Mexico).

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Baron‐Szabo, Rosemarie C. "Corals of the K/T‐boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina and Amphiastraeina." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4, no. 1 (January 2006): 1–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477201905001689.

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Baird, Andrew H., Morgan S. Pratchett, Deborah J. Gibson, Noriko Koziumi, and Christopher P. Marquis. "Short Communication: Variable palatability of coral eggs to a planktivorous fish." Marine and Freshwater Research 52, no. 6 (2001): 865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf00144.

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Predation by fish is generally assumed to be an important source of mortality of coral propagules. Field observations have confirmed that fish feed within the slicks of gametes that form following the annual mass spawning of corals on the Great Barrier Reef. However, these studies cannot determine which species are being consumed. To test whether the eggs of coral species were equally palatable, the eggs of eight common broadcast spawning scleractinian corals were fed to a planktivorous fish. Pomacentrus moluccensis readily consumed the eggs of five acroporid species and two faviid species, but often rejected the eggs of the agariciid Pachyseris speciosa; only 60% of the P. speciosa eggs were ingested compared with 90% of eggs of the other species. Assay testing for chemical defence showed that P. speciosa eggs were chemically distasteful to P. moluccensis.

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Burgess, S. N., M. T. McCulloch, M. K. Gagan, and T. M. Ward. "Long-term anthropogenic change in South Australian gulfs recorded by the faviid coral Plesiastrea versipora." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, no. 18 (August 2006): A74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.251.

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Arotsker, L., E. Kramarsky-Winter, E. Ben-Dov, and A. Kushmaro. "Microbial transcriptome profiling of black band disease in a Faviid coral during a seasonal disease peak." Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 118, no. 1 (February 11, 2016): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/dao02952.

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Lafratta, A., J. Fromont, P. Speare, and C. H. L. Schönberg. "Coral bleaching in turbid waters of north-western Australia." Marine and Freshwater Research 68, no. 1 (2017): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf15314.

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We report severe bleaching in a turbid water coral community in north-western Australia. Towed still imagery was used for a benthic survey near Onslow in March 2013 to assess thermal stress in hard and soft corals, finding 51–68% of all corals fully bleached in 10–15-m water depth. Tabulate or foliaceous Turbinaria was the locally most abundant hard coral (46%), followed by massives such as faviids and poritids (25%) and encrusting coral (12%), thus over 80% of the local corals could be considered to be bleaching resistant. All coral groups were bleached in similar proportions (massive hard corals 51%<soft corals 60%<encrusting hard corals 62%<Turbinaria 62%<‘others’ 68%). NOAA data and environmental assessments suggest previous recurrent thermal stress throughout the last 10 years in the study area. On the basis of these records this stress apparently changed the community structure from bleaching vulnerable species such as Acropora, leaving more tolerant species, and reduced coral cover. We could see no evidence for adaptation or acclimation of corals in this area. Towed still imagery was found to be a suitable means for rapid and large-scale bleaching studies in shallow, turbid areas where diving can be difficult or impossible.

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Sprecher, S. G., S. Galle, and H. Reichert. "Substrate specificity and juvenile Faviid predominance of coral colonization at the Maldive Islands following the 1998 bleaching event." Coral Reefs 22, no. 2 (July 1, 2003): 130–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-003-0292-7.

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Beer, S., M. Ilan, A. Eshel, A. Weil, and I. Brickner. "Use of pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry for in situ measurements of photosynthesis in two Red Sea faviid corals." Marine Biology 131, no. 4 (July 28, 1998): 607–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050352.

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BARON-SZABO, ROSEMARIE C. "Corals of the K/T-boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina." Zootaxa 1952, no. 1 (December 5, 2008): 1–244. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1952.1.1.

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This study is the second of two parts of a taxonomic review of the scleractinian corals of the Maastrichtian and Paleocene periods. The first part (Baron-Szabo, 2006) focused on the scleractinian suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina, and Amphiastraeina. The second part deals with the remaining five suborders: Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina. The two parts together represent the first extensive compilation of coral species of the K/T-(Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary, and deal with more than 2500 records of 550 nominal taxa, of which 259, belonging to 149 genera (including Lazarus taxa=taxa that disappeared before the Maastrichtian and re-occurred after the Paleocene) are considered valid. In the five suborders evaluated in this paper, 136 valid species (including in an addendum 3 taxa belonging to the suborders of the first part) of 81 genera can be reliably documented as occurring in the Maastrichtian and/or the Paleocene. For the following taxa, new combinations are proposed: Palaeopsammia collignoni (Alloiteau, 1958), Palaeopsammia zitteli (Vaughan, 1900) non Wanner, 1902, Bathycyathus corneti (Alloiteau & Tissier, 1958), Bathycyathus lloydi (Vaughan, 1920), Bathycyathus piveteaui (Alloiteau & Tissier, 1958), Trochocyathus speciosus (Gabb & Horn, 1860), Deltocyathus cupuliformis (Alloiteau, 1951), Asterosmilia alloiteaui (Alloiteau & Tissier, 1958), Dasmosmilia kochii (Pratz, 1910), Desmophyllum excavatum (Hagenow, 1839), Smilotrochus cornucopiae (Duncan, 1869), Smilotrochus milneri (Gregory, 1898), Alveolocyathus felixi (Filkorn, 1994), Pleurocora arachnoides (Knorr & Walch, 1777), Meandrophyllia textilis (Goldfuss, 1826), Meandrophyllia velamentosa (Goldfuss, 1826), Cyathoseris catadupensis (Vaughan, 1899), Heterogyra murchisoni (d’Archiac & Haime, 1853), Pattalophyllia grumi (Catullo, 1852), Stephanophyllia cribraria (Stephenson, 1916), Siderofungia morloti (Reuss, 1864), Hindeastraea garloica (Tchéchmédjiéva, 1975), Aspidastraea clathrata (Goldfuss, 1826), Paracycloseris nariensis (Duncan, 1880), Fungiastraea flexuosa (Goldfuss, 1826), Ellipsocoenia conferta (Umbgrove, 1925), Baryphyllia maxima (Umbgrove, 1925), Tubicora aylmeri (Gregory, 1900), Phacellocoenia thomkai (Eliášová, 1991), and Euphyllia calyculata (Catullo, 1852). One species is newly described: Polyphylloseris microkothos n. sp.. In addition to the re-examination and re-evaluation of described forms, this study also includes the first description of the largest Maastrichtian coral assemblage known (consisting of about 4000 specimens from Jamaica), as well as new material from the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Argentina, Lower Maastrichtian of Mexico (Cerralvo), and the Paleocene of Austria (Kambühel-Kalke). Furthermore, lost or “forgotten “coral collections were discovered and illustrated for the first time, including the type and original material of d’Achiardi (1875, Eocene of Italy), Wanner (1902, Maastrichtian-Danian of Egypt), Berryhill, in Berryhill et al. (1960, Danian of Puerto Rico), and Schlotheim (1820, Mesozoic-Recent). A diagnosis is provided for each species, as well as for each higher level taxonomic category, and issues concerning new taxonomic assignments are discussed in detail. The descriptions are accompanied by illustrations of representatives of each species, and in many cases, include illustrations of type or original material. Also included is the first comprehensive overview of the stratigraphical and geographical ranges of each taxon. The largest number of species occurring at the K/T-boundary are in the suborders Faviina (79), Fungiina (51), and Caryophylliina (41). In all of the nine suborders 259 valid species are known from the Maastrichtian and/or Paleocene, of which 204 occurred before the K/T-event and 106 species (52 %) crossed the K/T boundary. In the Paleocene 55 new species appeared. While species of all suborders crossed the K/T-boundary, no new species of the suborders Rhipidogyrina, Amphiastraeina, and Microsolenina appeared in the Paleocene. On the genus level 96 of the 131 genera (=73.3%) that occurred before the K/T-event crossed the K/T-boundary. Thirty-five genera went extinct and 18 genera have their first occurrence in the Paleocene. A generic extinction rate of 26.7% across the K/T-boundary, as estimated here, is considerably less than the rates of around 60% previously stated, but is quite similar to recently reported results for other macroinvertebrate groups after taxonomic revision (e.g., echinoids).

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Budd, Ann F., and Nathan D. Smith. "Diversification of a New Atlantic Clade of Scleractinian Reef Corals: Insights from Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphologic and Molecular Data." Paleontological Society Papers 11 (October 2005): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1089332600001273.

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Recent molecular analyses of the traditional scleractinian suborder Faviina have revealed a new Atlantic clade of reef corals, which disagrees with traditional classification. The new clade contradicts long-held notions of Cenozoic diversification being concentrated in the Pacific, and of Atlantic species bearing close evolutionary relationships with Pacific species. In the present paper, we outline an approach for integrating molecular, morphologic, and fossil data, which will allow future examination of the timing and phylogenetic context of the divergence of the new Atlantic clade. Our analyses are preliminary and focus on 17 genetically characterized species within the new Atlantic clade. The molecular dataset consists of 630 base pairs from the COI gene and 1143 base pairs from the cytB gene. The morphologic dataset consists of 25 traditional morphologic characters (86 states) in 57 species (23 extant and 32 extinct). Phylogenetic analyses are first performed separately on the molecular and morphologic (extant taxa only) datasets. Subsequent phylogenetic analyses involve adding fossil taxa to the morphologic dataset and performing a combined analysis for extant taxa.The results of both molecular and morphologic phylogenetic analyses disagree with traditional classification. They also disagree with each other, indicating the two datasets provide different phylogenetic signals and are informative at different taxonomic levels. Molecular trees for the mitochondrial genes analyzed have higher bootstrap support for deeper nodes in the tree; morphologic trees have higher bootstrap support near branch tips. The addition of fossils to the morphologic dataset does not improve resolution within phylogenetic trees, but it does indicate that all of the major subclades within the new Atlantic clade originated prior to middle Eocene time. The pulse of origination associated with Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnover involved speciation within well-established clades. Examination of the geographic distributions of the taxa within each of the four resulting trees indicates that the origin of the Brazilian reef coral fauna involved more than one separate dispersal event or that the fauna may be descended from a larger Mio-Pliocene Atlantic (Caribbean to Brazil) species pool, portions of which have subsequently become extinct. Because of the complex nature of scleractinian evolution (involving possible hybridization), we advocate using a phylogenetic approach that compares multiple independent datasets, including datasets that are currently being developed for new microstructural characters.

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Latypov, Yuri. "Particular Qualities of Identification and Taxonomy of Some Scleractinian (Scleractinia: Faviina), Faviidae Gregory, 1900." International Journal of Marine Science, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5376/ijms.2016.06.0014.

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Rich, Louis Pierre, Charlie Arnot, and Michelle M. Dennis. "Pathology of growth anomalies in massive Caribbean corals of the family Faviidae." Veterinary Pathology, June 11, 2021, 030098582110206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03009858211020675.

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Growth anomalies (GAs) are a morphologically diverse and poorly understood group of lesions affecting corals. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and morphology of GAs affecting the faviid corals Diploria labyrinthiformis, Pseudodiploria strigosa, Psudodiploria clivosa, and Colpophyillia natans on St. Kitts. Three gross morphological variants of GAs (exophytic, nodular, and ruminate) were equally prevalent, together affecting 7.8% of corals surveyed across 5 reefs. Prevalence varied by reef and coral species, being highest in C. natans (35.7%). Median colony diameter was larger in corals with GAs relative to those without (Mann-Whitney U test, P < .001). Histopathological examination of exophytic GAs consistently showed corallite and polyp gigantism ( n = 7), characterized by polyp enlargement and retained microanatomical structures. In contrast, nodular GAs ( n = 9) were consistently hyperplasia of the basal body wall with skeletal dystrophy, composed of micronodular skeletal deposits with abundant hyaline lamellae, bordered by calicoblastic epithelial hyperplasia, interspersed with distorted gastrovascular canals and islands of mesoglea. Endolithic organisms, particularly fungi and algae, were common among GA and apparently healthy biopsies. While pathogenesis of these lesions remains uncertain, a neoplastic basis for GAs on Caribbean faviids could not be established using diagnostic criteria conventionally applied to tumors of vertebrate taxa, in line with other recent observations of coral GAs.

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