Abstract

Some Aspects on the Taxonomy and Identification of Corals.

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  • Modern methods for morphometric, biochemical, and genetic researches are considered using examples in Taxonomy, identification, analysis, corals solving taxonomic problems and identifying corals

  • It is concluded that the taxonomy of corals came into the historical stage in the twenty-first century, when the previous nomenclature uncertainty began to be removed due to the availability of all data connecting taxonomic, phylogenetic, biogeographical, ecological, paleontological, and bibliographical, as well as environmental data

  • The taxonomy of corals as inherently subjective science has gone through three historical stages: (1) researches of collections performed during their discovery in the early expeditions; (2) researches performed directly on reefs using autonomous diving equipment; (3) molecular and biochemical researches

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Introduction

Modern methods for morphometric, biochemical, and genetic researches are considered using examples in Taxonomy, identification, analysis, corals solving taxonomic problems and identifying corals. After more than two centuries, the coral taxonomists withdrawing from "peculiarities" of researching their material based on the biological species concept are adopting a population analysis and detection of variability limits along with using modern genetic and biochemical researches (Latypov, 1982, 1984; Veron, 1995; Latypov, 2014, 2016b).

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