[Coral-List] Smallest free-living mushroom corals

[vassil zlatarski]

Dear colleagues,

At your attention, another new interesting coral taxonomical paper.  It is remarkable as result of 30 years of fieldwork on the smallest among free-living mushroom corals discovered so far, which are very difficult to identify because they show relatively few distinguishing characters and much ecophenotypic variation:


Hoeksema BW (2014) The “Fungia patella group” (Scleractinia, Fungiidae) revisited with a description of the mini mushroom coral Cycloseris boschmai sp. n. ZooKeys 371: 57–84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.371.6677
 
Kindly a link:
http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/6677/the-%E2%80%9Cfungia-patella-group%E2%80%9D-scleractinia-fungiidae-revisited-with-a-description-of-the-mini-mushroom-coral-cycloseris

Cheers,

Vassil 

Vassil Zlatarski
D.Sc. (Biology), Ph.D. (Geology)

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