Abstract
Powers, Dennis A. and F. James Rohlf (Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. 60439, and Division of Biol., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, N. Y. 10960) 1972. A numerical taxonomic study of Caribbean and Hawaiian reef corals. Syst. Zool., 21:53-64.-Sixty characters were measured and used in multivariate statistical programs to study the systematics of 54 species of Caribbean and Hawaiian reef corals. Correlation and distance phenograms and a computer-generated, threedimensional model were used to develop phenetic rankings of species groups at levels corresponding to the taxonomic categories of genus, family and suborders. The data generally supports the classification of Vaughan and Wells (1943) as opposed to the classical systematics (e.g., Hyman, 1940; Bourradaile, et al., 1963) of the order. [Numerical taxonomy; reef corals; Caribbean; Hawaii.]
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