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

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Henry, Lea-Anne, Roberts, J. Murray
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Comment; Howell; Lophelia pertusa; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/4/895; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst175

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...