based on Faure G. (1982), updated by Pichon M., Faure G., Geynet Y.
Published the 24 March 2009, updated the 20 July 2009
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List of scleractinian coral species cited from the Mascarene Archipelago (PDF, 224 Ko)
NOTE : We are only listing the names for which a specimen sampled in the Mascarene Archipelago is
lodged in a collection (n°, sampling location, collector, location of the collection). For the distribution, we
used the following bibliographic references given below, under the responsability of their authors.
References : Faure G. (1982) Recherche sur les peuplements de scléractiniaires des récifs coralliens des Mascareignes. Volume 2 (systématique).
Thèse Doctorat es sciences, Univ Aix-Marseille II Moothien Pillay R., Terashima H., Venkatasami A. and Uchida H. (2002) Field Guide to Corals of Mauritius. ISBN:99903-964-2-6
Hardman E. (2005) SHOALS of Rodrigues unofficial coral species list (unpublished)
For Acropora : Wallace C. C. (1999) Staghorn Corals of the World. CSIRO Publishing, ISBN:06430-639-1-9
For Psammocoridae/Siderastreidae : Benzoni F. (2007) Le problème des frontières entre espèces chez les coraux scléractiniaires : le
cas du genre Psammocora. Thèse Doctorat es sciences, EPHE Paris