Species Flabellum (Flabellum) knoxi Ralph & Squires, 1962

Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum knoxi Ralph, P.M. & Squires, D.F. 1962. The extant scleractinian corals of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 29: 19 pp., 8 pls [14-15].

  Type data:

   Holotype CMNZ One specimen, Chatham Rise, 402-512 m.
  Paratype(s) CMNZ Seven specimens, Chatham Rise, 402-512 m.; MONZ Two specimens, Chatham Rise, 402-512 m.

  Type locality references:

  Ralph, P.M. & Squires, D.F. 1962. The extant scleractinian corals of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 29: 19 pp., 8 pls.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 160-1167 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 1 3: 74 [18 pls., 14 maps] [42-44]

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 [46]

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 [97-98]

Squires, D.F. 1964. Biological results of the Chatham Island 1954 expedition. Part 6: Scleractinia. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 29: 31 [11-12, 19-20]

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 [26-27]

Wallace, C.C., Fellegara, I., Muir, P.R. & Harrison, P.L. 2009. The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 54(2): 1–118

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