Species Flabellum (Ulocyathus) hoffmeisteri Cairns & Parker, 1992

Calicular and lateral views of Flabellum (U.) hoffmeisteri

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• Flabellum (Ulocyathus) hoffmeisteri Cairns & Parker, 1992.

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA H642 (Soela stn. 27), 452 m. [37º59'S / 150º05'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA H644 One specimen (Soela stn. 26), 436 m. [37º37'S / 150º17'E]; SAMA H643 31 specimens (Soela stn. 27), 452 m. [37º59'S / 150º05'E]; SAMA H645 one specimen (Soela stn. 28), 656 m. [38º08'S / 149º59'E]; NMNH 85707 Four specimens (Soela stn. 27), 452 m. [37º59'S / 150º05'E]; NMNH 82012 one specimen (ex AM E5557), Gabo I. to Cape Everard Ground, ca 366 m.; NMV F56800 Two specimens (Kimbla stn. K7/73), 328 m.; NMV F56801 One specimen (Soela stn. 1-85-42), 472-478 m. [38º01.7'S / 150º04.9'E]; NMV F56782 Eight specimens (Soela stn. 2-84-69), 472-478 m. [38º02'S / 150º05'E]; NMV F56796 One specimen (Halcyon stn. 1), 550 m [38º50'S / 141º46'E].

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. & Parker, S.A. 1992. Review of the Recent Scleractinia (Stony Corals) of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series 3: 1–82, 18 pls, 3 figs, 19 maps [47-48].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Flabellum sp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 110-842 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 [103-104]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [394-395]

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 [118]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [303-304]

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 [157-158]

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 [84-86]

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