- Commentary
18 Pages
Modern Coral Taxonomy Requires Reproducible Data Alongside Field Observations—Comments on Veron et al. (2025)
- Peter F. Cowman,
- Tom C. L. Bridge,
- Tracy D. Ainsworth,
- Francesca Benzoni,
- Victor Bonito,
- Ann Budd,
- Patrick Cabaitan,
- Emma F. Camp,
- Chaolun Allen Chen and
- Andrew H. Baird
- + 23 authors
The recent review by Veron et al. (2025) posits that quantitative genomic evidence used to understand coral evolution should be secondary to species hypotheses derived from expert opinion based on field experience. The authors argue that morphologica...

