Species Chromonephthea rubra (Kükenthal, 1910)

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Regional Maps

• Nephthya rubra Kükenthal, W. 1910. Alcyonaria 1. Teil. pp. 1-108 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 3 (1). [48-50].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 6831 one colony in alcohol ("wrong data in bottle"), same data as 6832; ZMB 6832 one colony in alcohol (four slides RMNH COEL 33408), Useless Inlet, Shark Bay, WA [26º08’S 113º21’E]; ZMB 5032 small fragment of ZMB6832, same data as holotype.
• Nephthea quercus Kükenthal, W. 1910. Alcyonaria 1. Teil. pp. 1-108 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 3 (1). [47-48].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 6830 one colony in alcohol (four slides RMNH COEL 33410, small fragment ZMB5031), NNE from the northern point of Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay, WA [26º03’S 113º23’E].
• Nephthea australis Kükenthal, W. 1910. Alcyonaria 1. Teil. pp. 1-108 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 3 (1). [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 6736 one colony in alcohol (four slides RMNH COEL 33409, small fragments ZMB5033), NNE from the northern point of Heirisson Prong, Shark Bay, WA [26º03’S 113º23’E].

Ecological Descriptors

Hard bottom, marine, sessile.

History of changes