同叶bowerbankiis the new name for both corals we once calledacanthastrea Hillae和A. bowerbanki. Amid the reshuffling ofMICROMUSSAlordhowensis和Australophyllia wilsoniinto their new respective categories, the new analysis now places the corals once known as Hillaes and ‘Bankis into the same genus os our beloved Australian “Scolymia”.
Last yearScolymia Australis被重新分配为属中的唯一物种HomophylliaasH. Australis。Now with Lords inMICROMUSSA, Wilsoni in its own genus, and Hillaes and Bowerbankis together with Australis inHomophyllia, the wider Acan/Micro/Homo/Australophyllia landscape is starting to make a lot of sense.
For many years now reefers have enjoyed greater imports of live stony corals from Australia, including our introduction to Hillae and Bowerbanki about ten years ago. Some of our ‘Scolymia’ australissometimes showedmultiple corallites像Bowerbanki和Hillae的一些菌落一样，通常显示出与沙发症非常相似的颜色模式。
此外，我们经常根据corallites的含糊大小以及颜色和组织的差异来绘制Hillae和Bowerbanki之间的区别，而颜色和组织的差异不足以定义单独的物种。从澳大利亚出来的所有大型殖民地“ Acans”将被称为同叶bowerbanki.
Looking back on all the reclassification, seeing these various corals in their new classifications makes a lot of sense from an aquaristic point of view. It’s too bad that the indo-pacific corals belonging toScolymiacouldn’t have been placed in a better named genus like “Scoly-phyllia” as reefers are unlikely to start calling their beloved Scolies ‘Master Homo’ and ‘UFO Homo’. We’re just going to keep calling them ‘Scolies’ while still recognizing their true classification inHomophyllia.
That’s about it regarding the coral taxonomy shakedown from the forthcoming paper by Arrigoni et. al. We still expect a few new species of corals in this group to be described in the future but this is probably enough information to absorb for the time being.
