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<P>In Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok, Russia) Yuri Latypov has
finished the description more than 300 species of Scleractinian of Vietnam. Five
parts of the monography Scleractinian Corals of Vietnam (in Russian) in which
are published many problem questions of morphology, terminology and taxonomy of
these corals are surveyed. Is resulted annotated the list of all species, found
in Vietnam.</P>
<P>The book The principles and methods of the CNIDARIAN classification.
(Vladivoistok, Dalnauka, 1998, 244 p.) there is published. The book accounts the
main results of more than 20 years of investigations in systematics and taxonomy
of the CNIDARIA, which are difficult for taxonomy. The modern ideas abouth the
criteria for taxon definition of the fossil and recent corals, actinia, hydroids
are shown. Using numerous examples the significance of the various features,
definition of the limits of their variability, methods of the resolving of the
inevitable problems, which take place in the identification and classification
of Cnidarian, are shown. </P>
<P>my e-mail: <A
href="mailto:ltpv@online.marine.su">ltpv@online.marine.su</A></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>