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. 2016 Jun 15;6:27579. doi: 10.1038/srep27579

Figure 3. Phylogenetic relationships of Recent acroporid taxa and their skeleton surface textures.

Figure 3

(a) phylogenetic tree inferred by Bayesian analysis of combined mitochondrial cox1 and cob DNA sequences3. All acroporids show shingled thickening deposits (b,c,e–i) but their arrangement and sizes differ among taxa (usually a species-level character), (d) there are 3 major size-classes of shingles within the genus Acropora, defined as the distance between the growing fronts of overlapping shingles (yellow arrows in b,c,e–i): (b), Acropora echinata (ZPAL H.25/83(534B)) illustrates small shingles, (c) Acropora elegans (ZPAL H.25/84(538A) illustrates large shingles. Shingles in other acroporids are illustrated with Alveopora allingi (e), ZPAL H.25/72(550A), Isopora crateriformis (f), ZPAL H.25/79(548), Anacropora forbesi (g), ZPAL H.25/87(800), Montipora verrucosa (h), ZPAL H.25/116(804), and Astreopora myriophtalma (i), ZPAL H.25/103(799). SEM images. Other examples are provided in SI-Figs 2–5.