Species Flabellum (Ulocyathus) aotearoa Squires, 1964

Calicular and lateral views of Flabellum aotearoa

© Copyright Marcelo Visentini Kitahara

Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum aotearoa Squires, D.F. 1964. New stony corals (Scleractinia) from northeastern New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6 1: 1-9, pls 1, 2.

  Type data:

   Holotype AIM One specimen (Ikatere stn. B26), near Cape Brett, New Zealand [35°04'S / 174°23.2'E, 184 m.].
  Paratype(s) USNM 68261 One specimen (Ikatere stn. B26), near Cape Brett, New Zealand [35°04'S / 174°23.2'E, 184 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Squires, D.F. 1964. New stony corals (Scleractinia) from northeastern New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6 1: 1-9, pls 1, 2 [7-9].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 130-1300 m.

General References

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 [102-103]

Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 31–167 [117]

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

Kitahara, M. V. 2011. Morphological and molecular systematics of scleractinian corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with emphasis on deep-water species. PhD thesis - Molecular Biology, James Cook University. pp. 630 [79-81]

Squires, D.F. & Ralph, P.M. 1965. A new scleractinian coral of the genus Flabellum from New Zealand with a new record of Stephanocyathus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 78: 259-264 [261]

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