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Corallimorphus profundus

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Corallimorphus profundus is a species of corals in the genus Corallimorphus.[1] It lives in marine habitats.[1] This species can be found in the Southern Ocean [2] and in New Zealand.

C. profundus is considered a deep water species that most closely resembles the scleractinians: stony corals. Based on their morphological properties and genome organization, they are heavily scleractinian like in comparison to all other corallimorpharians. This makes C. profundus an early diverging species that holds a key role in the coral to corallimorpharia transition.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Corallimorphus profundus Moseley 1877". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  2. ^ "WoRMS distribution details". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  3. ^ Lin, M., Kitahara, M. V., Luo, H., Tracey, D., Geller, J., Fukami, H., Miller, D. J., Chen, C. A. (2014). Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangements in the Scleractinia/Corallimorpharia Complex: Implications for Coral Phylogeny. Genome Biology and Evolution, 6(5), 1086-1095. doi:10.1093/gbe/evu084. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
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Corallimorphus profundus: Brief Summary

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Corallimorphus profundus is a species of corals in the genus Corallimorphus. It lives in marine habitats. This species can be found in the Southern Ocean and in New Zealand.

C. profundus is considered a deep water species that most closely resembles the scleractinians: stony corals. Based on their morphological properties and genome organization, they are heavily scleractinian like in comparison to all other corallimorpharians. This makes C. profundus an early diverging species that holds a key role in the coral to corallimorpharia transition.

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coastal to abyssal

Reference

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

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