Species Deltocyathoides orientalis (Duncan, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deltocyathus orientalis Duncan, P.M. 1876. Recent corals from the South Australian and Victorian coasts. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 1–11.

  Type data:

   Holotype Lost (Zibrowius, 1980), southeastern Honshu, Japan [34°12'N 136°20'E, 95 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Duncan, P.M. 1876. Notices of some deep-sea and littoral corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, New-Zealand, Persian Gulf, and Japanese Seas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876: 428–442 [431]; Zibrowius, H. 1980. Les Scléractiniaires de la Méditeranee et de l'Atlantique nord-orientale. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 11: 284 p.; Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [292].

  Secondary source:

   Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417.
• Peponocyathus orientalis Veron, J.E.N. 1986. Aspects of the biogeography of hermatypic corals. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress 4: 83-88.

  Secondary source:

   Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417.
• Peponocyathus australiensis Cairns, 1989.

  Secondary source:

   Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417.
• Deltocyathus lens Alcock, A. 1902. Diagnoses and descriptions of new species of corals from the Siboga expedition. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 7: 89–115 [99].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cairns, S.D. & Zibrowius, H. 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 172: 27–243 [144–145]
• Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [292]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, free

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417

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