珊瑚地理是目前正在珊瑚礁研究的项目之一，该项目将最终导致有关礁石建筑石质珊瑚生物地理学的几乎所有知识。很像珊瑚ID CDwhich will be published online in 2010, Coral Geographic will be a free GIS service that will help researchers and coral keepers alike make sense of where corals come from and how different reef ecoregions are formed by their place in the world. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a very powerful mapping technology that is used everyday in navigation software and Coral Geographic will contain a large database of freely downloadable GIS maps that will be loaded with data about weather, ecology, sea surface temperatures and just about anything else you might want to know about where corals grow. Hopefully with these kinds of coral distribution maps widely available to us we’ll stop seeing corals likeAcanthatsrea maximafrom the Middle East being used to label a wide range of mussids from Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
