Species Flabellum (Ulocyathus) lowekeyesi Squires & Ralph, 1965

Calicular and lateral views of Flabellum (Ulocyathus) lowekeyesi

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum lowekeyesi Squires, D.F. & Ralph, P.M. 1965. A new scleractinian coral of the genus Flabellum from New Zealand with a new record of Stephanocyathus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 78: 259-264 [259–261].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ CO185 One specimen, Marine Department prawn trawl 29,42 km off Cape Brett, New Zealand, 732 m.
  Paratype(s) MONZ 45601 One specimen.

  Type locality references:

  Squires, D.F. & Ralph, P.M. 1965. A new scleractinian coral of the genus Flabellum from New Zealand with a new record of Stephanocyathus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 78: 259-264 [259–261]; Cairns, S.D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 103: 1–210, 44 pls, 22 maps [100-101].

Generic Combinations

• Flabellum (Ulocyathus) lowekeyesi (Squires & Ralph, 1965). —
  Cairns, S.D. 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and Adjacent Waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Microbaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 486: 1–136, 42 pls [54, 58]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 278-1100 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 103: 1–210, 44 pls, 22 maps [100-101]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [304]

Cairns, S.D. & Keller, N.B. 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum 5 103: 213–292 13 figs [262]

Kitahara, M.V., Cairns S.D., Stolarski, J., Blair, D. & Miller, D.J. 2010. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial CO1 sequence data. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 5(7): e11490

Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [27]

Stolarski, J., Kitahara, M.V., Miller, D.J., Cairns, S.D., Mazur, M. & Meibom, A. 2011. An ancient evolutionary origin of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11(316)

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