Recommendations for best practice in deep-sea habitat classification: Bullimore et al. as a case study.

• Main Authors: Henry, Lea-Anne, Roberts, J. Murray
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: UNESCO/IOC 2014
• Subjects: Cold-water corals; Coral gardens; Lophelia pertusa; Solenosmilia variabilis; Taxonomy; Parameter DisciplineBiological oceanographyBiota abundance, biomass and diversity; Howell; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25607/obp-317; https://www.oceanbestpractices.net/handle/11329/760

We assert that the reef framework-forming coral, Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873, is sometimes incorrectly recorded as another coral, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) in surveys of deep-sea habitat (e.g. Bullimore, R., Foster, N., and Howell, K. 2013. Coral-characterized benthic assemblages of...