Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived for centuries. Slowly, layer by layer, they have constructed intricate ...

Information on geographic ranges and the location of range boundaries of individual species is key to studies of biogeography, evolution, macroecology, and conservation biology. Traditionally, marine ...

Object Details Author Cairns, Stephen D (Stephen Douglas) 1949- Contents pt. 1. Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae Summary Fifty-three species of ahermatypic ...

The Scleractinia, which are one of the most important builders of modern reefs, have been considered to have first appeared in the Middle Triassic. Recently, Paleozoic scleractiniamorphs have been ...