Annotated Checklist of the Hermatypic Corals of the Philippines !

All known reef-building corals of the Philippines are listed in systematic order. Records are from original field studies combined with reevaluations of major taxonomic collections in Philippines universities. Field studies were conducted in 1986 and 1988 on reefs near Bolinao (Luzon), Puerto Galera (Mindoro), Mactan (Cebu), Apo Island (Negros), and EI Nido (Palawan), an area of over half the east-west and north-south extent of the country. Detailed studies were made of collections at the University of the Philippines (Marine Science Institute, Zoology Department, and Bolinao Marine Laboratory), the University of San Carlos, and Silliman University. Synonomies are proposed, based on reevaluations of all available type specimens that have the Philippines as type locality. All taxa are indexed. A second major source ofinformation is the collections of previous researchers. The most important of these are the collections of Professor F. Nemenzo of the University of the Philippines, who after a lifetime of study has created a detailed taxonomy ofPhilippine reef corals. Professor Nemenzo and his colleages have made their collections (at the University of the Philippines, the University of San Carlos, and Silliman University) freely available to us, and these have been essential to the present study. Many of Nemenzo's original names have been retained in this study. Others have been synonymized where appropriate. These synonymies are based on original reevaluations of all type specimens that have the Philippines as type locality. Possible synonymy of these species with nominal species of other countries has not been studied, and thus names of Philippine species accepted here are tentative 1 Support was provided by the UNESCO (COMAR) only. It should be noted that this study does through ,t R~ E.HargeraRd. b)'_Ul'IE~Jhnmgh E.. 0. __ nQl_aJt~mpL tiL.r.e.eYahlate_Ne.mellZQ'sreGomez as well as the United Nations Development Prodescriptions of species originally described gram. Hodgson was supported by National Science from other localities. Thus, names used in this Foundation Grant INT-8421225; by the East-West Center, Hawaii; and by a National Resource Fellowship, study may not be applicable to Nemenzo's University ofHawaii. This is contribution number 174 of redescriptions. the University ofthe Philippines Marine Science Institute. Unless otherwise indicated, specimen numManuscript accepted 23 November 1988. bers refer to reference collections made as part 2 Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No.3, Townsville MC, QLD 4810, Australia. of this study. These include 232 reference 3 Zoology Department, 2538 The Mall, University of specimens deposited in the Bolinao Marine Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Station and 354 reference specimens deposited