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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:21, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Montastraea

Hi Meflanag, thanks for your addition of the new coral species page M. cavernosa. I have made a few small changes at this page, and have requested for it to be moved to the full name of Montastraea cavernosa, which is the typical location. There is no need to have a parallel article at The great star coral, which I have converted to a redirect. Sometimes there is discussion about best location scientific vs common name, but I think for a more obscure species such as this and where common names are ambiguous the scientific name is commonly used.

I would be interested to know if you can find good evidence of other Montastraea species existing, as this seems unclear from online links. If it is the only species, wikipedia would generally only have one article which would in this case describe the species, genus and family. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  13:30, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Two comments: Spaully, looks like there is a bunch of Montastraea species [1], so further separate articles below genus can probably be expected. Meflanag, I've moved your original article (still redirecting to the pre-existing Montastraea cavernosa) to the scientific synonym Astraea radiata in order to get rid of the title "The great star coral", which is not really a form we want in mainspace as an active redirect. If you want to retrieve your material out of the article history, please look in the history of Astraea radiata. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:58, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Well I'll be. Looks as if every single one of those species has since been reassigned to different genera. Sorry Spaully, you were right on the money. I'll see to merging the species article to the genus. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:05, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Okay, sorted now. Sorry about the confusion. Everything is now at the genus article Montastraea, where it should be, and everything else redirects there. Meflanag, your additional material has been merged into the "Description" section at Montastraea. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:28, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Elmidae- It does seem surprising, given the number of proposed species within the genus. I don't have any good paper book references so suppose there is the possibility of other species existing, though WoRMS is not promising. Thanks for the moves and edits. And sorry to Meflanag that it isn't a whole new article, but your expansion and added information is good. |→ Spaully ^~talk~  15:32, 6 May 2021 (UTC)