Morphology and phylogeny of Chrysogorgia pinniformis sp. nov. and C. varians sp. nov., two golden corals from the Caroline seamounts in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean

The Species Diversity of the Genus Echinogorgia in Xiamen Bay and Its New Record in China

“…They clearly pointed out that the traditional morphological classification results differed slightly from the results of their molecular phylogenetic analysis [34]. Therefore, the classification and identification of the corals required a combination of morphology descriptions and molecular biology [18,72].…”

Towards standardizing automated image analysis with artificial intelligence for biodiversity

“…To provide statistical data for assessment of the variability, it is necessary to perform image analysis, such as recognition of the biological individuals from the acquired images, which is based on the morphological features. The analysis of the obtained images can be conducted with reference to the accumulating photographic atlas and handbooks on taxa (Desbruyères et al, 2006;Tilot, 2006;Simon-Lledóet al, 2019;Xu et al, 2020). However, manually analyzing many images based on morphological characteristics, such as image annotation and classification, is labor-intensive and time-consuming.…”