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TI Scleractinian corals (Fungiidae, Agariciidae and Euphylliidae) of Pulau Layang-Layang, Spratly Islands, with a note on Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905)
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AF WAHEED, Zarinah
   BENZONI, Francesca
   VAN DER MEIJ, Sancia E. T.
   TERRANEO, Tullia I.
   HOEKSEMA, Bert W.
AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:1;4:4;5:1;
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C1 Nat Biodivers Ctr, Dept Marine Zool, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
   Univ Malaysia Sabah, Borneo Marine Res Inst, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Sabah, Malaysia.
   Univ Milano Bicocca, Dept Biotechnol & Biosci, I-20126 Milan, Italy.
   KAUST, Red Sea Res Ctr, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
C2 NAT BIODIVERS CTR, NETHERLANDS
   UNIV MALAYSIA SABAH, MALAYSIA
   UNIV MILANO BICOCCA, ITALY
   UNIV KING ABDULLAH, SAUDI ARABIA
IN DOAJ
IF 0.938
TC 26
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00585/69700/67567.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR BIBELOT
BO Alis
DE ;Scleractinia;South China Sea;Malaysia;atoll;distribution ranges;new records;species richness
AB Layang-Layang is a small island part of an oceanic atoll in the Spratly Islands off Sabah, Malaysia. As the reef coral fauna in this part of the South China Sea is poorly known, a survey was carried out in 2013 to study the species composition of the scleractinian coral families Fungiidae, Agariciidae and Euphylliidae. A total of 56 species was recorded. The addition of three previously reported coral species brings the total to 59, consisting of 32 Fungiidae, 22 Agariciidae, and five Euphylliidae. Of these, 32 species are new records for Layang-Layang, which include five rarely reported species, i.e., the fungiids Lithophyllon ranjithi, Podabacia sinai, Sandalolitha boucheti, and the agariciids Leptoseris kalayaanensis and L. troglodyta. The coral fauna of Layang-Layang is poor compared to other areas in Sabah, which may be related to its recovery from a crown-of-thorns seastar outbreak in 2010, and its low habitat diversity, which is dominated by reef slopes consisting of steep outer walls. Based on integrative molecular and morphological analyses, a Pavona variety with small and extremely thin coralla was revealed as P. maldivensis. Since specimens from Sabah previously identified as P. maldivensis were found to belong to P. explanulata, the affinities and distinctions of P. maldivensis and P. explanulata are discussed. 
PY 2015
SO Zookeys
SN 1313-2989
PU Pensoft Publ
IS 517
UT 000360445800001
BP 1
EP 37
DI 10.3897/zookeys.517.9308
ID 69700
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