Talk:Scleractinia

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Following recent genetic analyses, including Fukami et al 2004 in Nature, I think scleractinia ought to be split into the two large clades Robusta and Complexa. Those aren't the names that paper assigned to the two clades, I think Kerr assigned the names, I don't have the paper handy here in the office but I think it was 2006 or 2005. I don't like Kerr's method (supertree approach) but those clades have been rather robust in several different analyses and it would be nice to give them names.