A hand holds up a specimen jar with shelves of other specimens visible in the background. The location is Natural History Museum in Paris and the jar is labeled 'Clavularia viridis'. A caption explains: "The 200-year-old mystery of a group of soft corals has been resolved, leading to the description of a new species, a new genus, and even a completely new coral family." The photo is credited as being by Stefano Borghi.
Combining ancient DNA with the study of 19th century specimens, researchers finally resolved the identity of the Clavularia genus, a group of #SoftCorals, which had been misclassified for nearly 2 centuries.
Published in Invertebrate Systematics:
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