A Solitary Deep-Water Corals of the Scleractinian of the Vietnamese Shelf

YuriYa. Latypov^1,

¹A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

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YuriYa. Latypov. A Solitary Deep-Water Corals of the Scleractinian of the Vietnamese Shelf. American Journal of Zoological Research. 2014; 2(1):5-15. doi: 10.12691/ajzr-2-1-2

Abstract

For the first time described solitary corals collected of the shelf Vietnam. In general were identified 27 species, 16 genera attributed to the eight families. Two species were not previously known to science. At all stations were met representatives of genera Flabellum. Most massive settlements have formed two types Dendrophyllia sp. (33 spec. in samples) and Trunca to flabellum crassum (28 spec. in samples). Most taxonomically rich coral genera were Flabellum, Trunca to flabellum, and Caryophyllia. The high density of corals noted at stations with depths 90-230 m, the greatest variety-at a depth of 285-390 m. Deep water corals in Vietnam are integral with the coral fauna of the Indo-Polynesian Province. These data complement the general characteristics of the knowledge of the composition, morphology and chorology world fauna single coral.

Keywords:
corals deep-water chorology shelf Vietnam

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