Dominance of the coral Pocillopora acuta around Phuket Island in the Andaman Sea, Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758), a species complex, consists of several genetic lineages, some of which likely represent reproductively isolated species, including the species Pocillopora acuta Lamarck, 1816. Pocillopora acuta can exhibit similar morphological characteristics as P. damicornis, thus making it difficult to identify species-level taxonomic units. To determine whether the P. damicornis-like colonies on the reefs in the Andaman Sea (previously often identified as P. damicornis) consist of different species, we sampled individual colonies at five sites along a 50 km coastal stretch at Phuket Island and four island sites towards Krabi Province, Thailand. We sequenced 210 coral samples for the mitochondrial open reading frame and i

SUBMITTER: Fiesinger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10643679 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature