Cyphastrea kausti sp. n. (cnidaria, anthozoa, scleractinia), a new species of reef coral from the red sea

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• who: Jessica Bouwmeester from the Cyphastrea is now placed in the Merulinidae Verrill, (Fukami et_al, Budd et al2012, Huang et_al, ). In his revision of the genus, based on macro-morphological characters of the skeleton and the tissue of the coral polyps, Matthai (1914) recognised five species, i.e., C. microphthalma (Lamarck, ), C. serailia (Forskål, ), C. chalcidicum (Forskål, ), C. gardineri (Matthai, ), and C. suvadivae (Gardiner, ). However, the last three were later declared junior synonyms of C. serailia by Wells (1954) and Chevalier (1975). Veron et_al (1977) then reinstated C. chalcidicum and declared C. gardineri as junior . . .
  

   

  

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