[Coral-List] Tubastraea vs. Tubastrea?

[Douglas Fenner]

Dr. Stephen Cairns at the Smithsonian is the world expert on
azooxanthellate scleractinian corals (Helmut Zibrowius is on Mediterranean
azooxanthellate corals).  He spells it Tubastraea in his many taxonomic
monographs, no doubt based on the spelling in the original paper first
using the name.  So that is the correct spelling.   Cheers,  Doug


On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Delbeek, Charles
<CDelbeek at calacademy.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Best regards,
> Charles
>
>
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