[Coral-List] What species of scleratinia have the broadest geographic distribution around the world?

Zac Forsman zforsman2001 at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jan 18 17:06:09 EST 2007


  I would venture to guess that Porites lobata and Pocilopora  
damicornis rank very high.. as far as I know they can be found on  
most reefs throughout the whole tropical Pacific.

Zac Forsman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
2450 Campus Rd.
Honolulu HI, 96822
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zac/



On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Gene Shinn wrote:

> After listening to 3 days of presentations on deep water chemo
> synthetic communities at the MMS Information Transfer meeting last
> week I will venture a guess that the most widespread coral is the
> deep water coral Lophilia petusa. Just a guess.
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