TY - JOUR
T1 - Pachyseris inattesa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): A new reef coral species from the red sea and its phylogenetic relationships
AU - Terraneo, Tullia Isotta
AU - Berumen, Michael L.
AU - Arrigoni, Roberto
AU - Waheed, Zarinah
AU - Bouwmeester, Jessica
AU - Caragnano, Annalisa
AU - Stefani, Fabrizio
AU - Benzoni, Francesca
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2014/8/13
Y1 - 2014/8/13
N2 - A new scleractinian coral species, Pachyseris inattesa sp. n., is described from the Red Sea. Despite a superficial resemblance with some species in the agariciid genus Leptoseris with which it has been previously confused, P. inattesa sp. n. has micro-morphological characters typical of the genus Pachyseris. This genus, once part of the Agariciidae, is comprised of five extant species and is widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific. It is currently incertae sedis as a result of recent molecular analysis and appears to be closely related to the Euphylliidae. A molecular phylogenetic reconstruction including P. inattesa sp. n., the genus type species P. rugosa, and P. speciosa, all present in the Red Sea, was performed using the mitochondrial intergenic spacer between COI and 16S-rRNA. The results confirm that P. inattesa sp. n. is a monophyletic lineage closely related to the other Pachyseris species examined. © Tullia I. Terraneo et al.
AB - A new scleractinian coral species, Pachyseris inattesa sp. n., is described from the Red Sea. Despite a superficial resemblance with some species in the agariciid genus Leptoseris with which it has been previously confused, P. inattesa sp. n. has micro-morphological characters typical of the genus Pachyseris. This genus, once part of the Agariciidae, is comprised of five extant species and is widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific. It is currently incertae sedis as a result of recent molecular analysis and appears to be closely related to the Euphylliidae. A molecular phylogenetic reconstruction including P. inattesa sp. n., the genus type species P. rugosa, and P. speciosa, all present in the Red Sea, was performed using the mitochondrial intergenic spacer between COI and 16S-rRNA. The results confirm that P. inattesa sp. n. is a monophyletic lineage closely related to the other Pachyseris species examined. © Tullia I. Terraneo et al.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/334564
UR - http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3983
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906093439&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.433.8036
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.433.8036
M3 - Article
C2 - 25152672
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 433
SP - 1
EP - 30
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 433
ER -