[Coral-List] Tubastraea vs. Tubastrea?

[August Heim]

I have to say that I am appreciate of this.  Even though I have no knowledge of what these species are.  

On Dec 24, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Judith Lang wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> In the early 1970's, when Cornell University's John Wells, at the time senior scientist scleractinian taxonomist in the English-speaking world, sent me his re-working of my re-working the Jamaican coral list that he and Tom Goreau Sr. had earlier published, I noticed that  an "a" had been added between the "r" and the "e" in both Montastraea and Tubastraea. 
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> So naturally I wrote him to ask why. 
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> He responded with the following one sentence on a postcard that had been printed decades earlier in Jamaica but never previously used:   "Montastraea and Tubastraea are their original and correct spellings."
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> The original and correct  spellings were "reintroduced" in the Wells and Lang (1973) Appendix to his "Scleractinian Corals from Jamaica"  in the Bulletin of Marine Science.
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> Happy holidays everyone!
> Judy
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> On Dec 23, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Delbeek, Charles wrote:
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>> Curious as to what the correct spelling for this genus is. I have seen it spelled both ways in the grey literature and scientific papers and books. WORMS says it is Tubastraea. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267930 and I have always written this way, except for my first book where we spelled it Tubastrea and it was pointed out as wrong.
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>> Best regards,
>> Charles
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