Recent molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that most traditional families of zooxanthellate shallow-water scleractinians are polyphyletic, whereas most families mainly composed of deep-sea and azooxanthellate species are monophyletic. In this context,

A new genus and species of Madreporaria is described for the Cabo Verde Archipelago. The discovery belongs to the Dendrophylliidae family and its most striking morphological peculiarities are: thickened areas along the corallum, giving the colony a strange

In the Mediterranean Sea the genus Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830, is represented by two species known to form large branched colonies, D. cornigera (Lamarck, 1816) and D. ramea (Linnaeus, 1758). As is typical of Mediterranean Scleractinia, both species

This paper describes and provides new records of the copepods hosted by the ahermatypic scleractinian Astroides calycularis (Pallas, 1766). This coral species is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and protected by the Convention on International Trade in