Over the past decade, researchers investigating the genetics of coral evolution came to a startling conclusion—the traditional classification used for stony corals, based on skeletal morphology, was horribly (almost comedically) inaccurate. Since then, every year has brought along a major new [...]
There’s been a monumental effort in recent years to revise and reclassify the taxonomy of brain corals, and, in a recently published paper, this ongoing work has resulted in the description of a new species of Micromussa from the Western Indian Ocean. This new coral, M. indiana, had previously [...]
