Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: species: Lobophytum sp.

References that assist with identification

  • Fabricius, K. and P. Alderslade (2001). in: Soft corals and sea fans: a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.
  • McFadden, C.S., P. Alderslade, L.P. van Ofwegen, H. Johnsen and A. Rusmevichientong (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia), Invertebrate Biology, 125: 288-305.

Other references

  • Fabricius, K.E. (1995). Slow population turnover in the soft coral genera Sinularia and Sarcophyton on mid- and outer-shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 126: 145-152.
  • Goulet, T.L., T.C. LaJeunesse and K.E. Fabricius (2008). Symbiont specificity and bleaching susceptibility among soft corals in the 1998 Great Barrier Reef mass coral bleaching event, Marine Biology, 154: 795-804.
  • Hellstrom, M., K.D. Kavanagh and J.A.H. Benzie (2010). Multiple spawning events and sexual reproduction in the octocoral Sarcophyton elegans (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) on Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Marine Biology, 157: 383-392. LIRS catalog number 1314.
  • Michalek-Wagner, K., D.J. Bourne and B.F. Bowden (2001). The effects of different strains of zooxanthellae on the secondary metabolite chemistry and development of the soft-coral host Lobophytum compactum. Marine Biology 138: 753-760, Marine Biology, 138: 753-760.
  • Michalek-Wagner, K. and B.L. Willis (2001). Impacts of bleaching on the soft coral Lobophytum compactum. I. Fecundity, fertilisation, and offspring viability, Coral Reefs, 19: 231-239.
  • Pratchett, M. (2005). Dietary overlap among coral-feeding butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Marine Biology, 148: 373-382. LIRS catalog number 941.