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However, the identification of tropical marine fishes using morphological characters is often difficult and usually requires expert consultation.

Sponges (Porifera Grant, 1836) are an important group of Metazoa in which species identification based on morphological characters is particularly difficult.

Alnicola pseudosalabertii, a species with ancestral morphological characters, is likely the oldest known Alnus-associated species in the Hymenogastraceae family.

However, the taxonomy of Sternopriscus based on morphological characters is well supported [ 27, 28], and our multi-gene phylogeny is well supported by different analytical approaches.

Homology of reductive morphological characters is commonly evaluated by ontogenetic analysis, but in the case of ceratioids, very little ontogenetic material is available for analysis [ 2, 33].

The DNA data with which these relationships have been reconstructed are easily accessible from public databases; access to morphological characters is much more difficult.

Although the myxospore's morphology generally does not correlate with the phylogeny, several morphological characters were found to correspond partially to the phylogeny.

Nine discrete morphological characters of flower and fruit morphology were measured from specimens at BISH, NY, PTBG, and US and ten morphological characters were derived from species descriptions ([ 29, 30] Table 2).

To a large extent, many of the families in Asparagales are defined primarily by DNA characters, and unique morphological characters are not obvious within families.

All measurements of morphological characters are summarized in Table 2.

The colonies and microscopic morphological characters were shown in Fig. 2.