• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2017

This study reports three species in the genus Tubastraea from Korea: Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829; Tubastraea faulkneri Wells, 1982; and Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834). Tubastraea faulkneri and T. micranthus are newly recorded in Korea. The specimens of three species were collected in the subtidal zones off Jeju-do between 1991 and 2010. The two newly recorded species were described in detail based upon the morphological characters of skeletal structures. The previous records of T. coccinea in Korea were supplemented with additional data in the remarks. These three species have a straight septal arrangement or irregular septal fusion in common as a main character for the genus Tubastraea, but they differ with respect to the growth form, intercorallite distance, exsertness from common coenosteum, and the detailed characters of septal arrangement. Tubastraea faulkneri is similar to T. coccinea in its plocoid growth form, well developed common coenosteum, and corallite size. However, unlike the latter species, the former species is characterized by rare or absent budding adjacent to the corallite edges, wider intercorallite distance, and irregularly developed septal fusion near the columella. In particular, T. micranthus is distinguished by an axial dendroid growth form, and the smallest corallites in this genus.

• 한국동물학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.131-148
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• 1982

한국산 六放珊瑚類의 계통분류학적 연구를 하기 위하여 1969년 12월부터 1981년 7월까지 남한의 16개지역 (동해, 남해, 황해연안과 도서지방)으로부터 채집된 표본들을 동정분류한 결과 다음과 같은 돌산호類에 속하는 5亞目 6科 11屬 17種을 얻었다. 이들은 모두 韓國未記錄種이며 다음과 같다. Psammocora profundacella, Alveopora japonica, Culicia japonica, Caryophyllia japonica, Cyathoceras niinoi, Heterocyathus aequicostatus, H. japonicus, Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) spiniger, Desmophyllum insignis, Flabellum distinctum, F. rubrum, F. transversale, Dendrophyllia boschmai, D. cribrosa, D. florulenta, Tubastraea aurea 및 T. coccinea.