Species Flabellum (Flabellum) magnificum Marenzeller, 1904

Calicular and lateral views of Flabellum magnificum

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• Flabellum magnificum Marenzeller, E. von 1904. Steinkorallen. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 3 7: 261–318 [276–277].

  Type data:

   Holotype The holotype is assumed to be lost (Expedition Valdivia stn. 199), off western Sumatra [0°15.5'N / 98°04'E, 470 m.].

  Type locality references:

  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 [50–51].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, free in adult stage, depth range: 225-740 m.

General References

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 [50-51]

Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [72]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [392-393]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [303]

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 [151-152]

Faustino, L.A. 1927. Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. Monographs of the Bureau of Science. Manila 22: 1–310 [46] (as Flabellum pavoninum (in part): not F. pavoninum Lesson, 1831)

Grygier, M.J. 1991. Additions to the ascothoracidan fauna of Australia and south-east Asia (Crustacea, Maxillopoda): Synagogidae (part), Lauridae and Petrarcidae. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 1–46 [43]

Yabe, H. & Eguchi, M. 1942. Fossil and Recent Flabellum from Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 2 22: 87-103 [89-90] (as Flabellum pavoninum magnificum)

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