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David W Hicks

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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The globally dispersed sun-coral species is _Tubastraea coccinea_ (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)

Angela Ferreira Portella, João Gabriel R. N. Ferreira, Giordano B. Soares‐Souza, Danielle Luciana Aurora Soares do Amaral, Karine Venegas Macieira, Luciano Cesar Candisani, Yasmin Rodrigues da Cunha, Camilla Itapary dos Santos, Daniela Batista, Luciana Leomil, André LQ Torres, Francesco Dondero, Aline Silva Romão‐Dumaresq, Diego F. Figueroa, David W Hicks, , Mauro de Freitas Rebelo

The paper resolves taxonomic confusion in sun corals by combining molecular phylogenetics and genome assemblies, revealing T. coccinea as the cosmopolitan species and T. tagusensis as endemic to the Galapagos.

Genome Biology and Evolution · Oct 30, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetics