Species Flabellum (Flabellum) patens Moseley, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum (Flabellum) patens Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [172] (in part: pl. 6, fig. 15).

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1880.11.25.79, off Kai Islands, Banda Sea - 256 m. [5°49'S / 132°14'E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1880.11.25.79 Three specimens.

  Type locality references:

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

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 204-439 m.

General References

Alcock, A. 1902. Report on the deep sea Madreporaria of the Siboga expedition. Siboga Expeditie 16a: 1–55 [30-31] (as Flabellum australe (not Flabellum asutrale Moseley, 1881))

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 [51-52]

Cairns, S.D. 1989. Discriminant analysis of Indo-West Pacific Flabellum. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 8: 61–68 [67]

Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [71-72]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [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 [152]

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