Species Monomyces rubrum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turbinolia rubra Quoy, J.R. & Gaimard, J.P. 1833. Zoophytes. 175-254, pls 14-20, Zoologie 4 in Dumont, J.S.C. (ed.). Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe, executé par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-29, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Paris, 1830-1835.

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP One specimen, Cook Strait, New Zealand.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP one specimen, Cook Strait, New Zealand.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Squires, D.F. 1963. Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 20: 43 [11-41] ([plates 1-2]).

  Type locality references:

  Squires, D.F. 1963. Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 20: 43 [11-41]; 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 [107].
• Flabellum nobile Holdsworth, E.W.H. 1862. Description of two new species of corals belonging to the genus Flabellum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862. 198–199 [198-199] ([plate 28, figures 4-5]).

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) unknown Two specimens (unknown institution), New Zealand.
• Flabellum latum Studer, T. 1878. Ubersicht der Anthozoa Alcyonaria, welche wahrend der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 632-688 [630].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMHU One specimen, off North Cape [34°16'S / 172°59.6'E, 82 m.].
• Desmophyllum gracile Studer, T. 1878. Ubersicht der Anthozoa Alcyonaria, welche wahrend der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 632-688.

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMHU 1880 One specimen (the type locality given by Studer (1878) was 34*09.9'S, 172*35.8'E (off Three Kings Islands), 165 m (Cairns, 1995: 107)), off Port Louis, Mauritius (see comments!) [20°07'S / 57°26.5'E, 75-411 m].

  Type locality references:

  Studer, T. 1880. Ubersicht der Steinkorallen aus der Familie der Madreporaria aporosa, Eupsammina und Turbinaria, welche auf der Reise S.M.S Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1877: 625-655; Studer, T.L. 1889. Zoologie und Geologie. Die Forschungsreise S.M.S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876 ... Berlin : E.S. Mittler u. Sohn Vol. III vi, 322 pp., 33 pIs.
• Cylicia vacua Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new extra tropical corals. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 131-135 [134] ([plate 12, figures 4a-b]).

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Two specimens (The deposition of C. vacua is unknown (Cairns, 1995: 117)), off Wellington.
• Flabellum rugulosum Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1880. Corals and Bryozoa of the Neozoic period in New Zealand. Palaeontology of New Zealand 4: 1-34 [12-13] ([figures 8a-b]).

  Type data:

   Lectotype NZGS CO555 One specimen (early Pleistocene), Ngaruroro River, Hawke's Bay, Nukumaruan.
  Paralectotype(s) NZGS CO556-7 Two specimens (early Pleistocene), Ngaruroro River, Hawke's Bay, Nukumaruan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ralph, P. M. 1948. Some New Zealand corals. New Zealand Science Review 6 6: 107-110.

  Type locality references:

  Ralph, P. M. 1948. Some New Zealand corals. New Zealand Science Review 6 6: 107-110; 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 [107].
• Flabellum harmeri Gardiner, J.S. 1929. Madreporaria. (b) Turbinolidae and Eupsammidae. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology 5(IV): 121–130 [122-123] ([plate 1, figures 19-20]).

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH Four specimens (Terra Nova Stn. 91), off Great King Island [549 m].

  Type locality references:

  Gardiner, J.S. 1929. Madreporaria. (b) Turbinolidae and Eupsammidae. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology 5(IV): 121–130.
• Flabellum rubrum campanulatum Squires, D.F. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary Corals of New Zealand. Paleontological Bulletin of New Zealand, Geological Survey 29: 107 pp. [67] ([plate 14, figures 1-8]).
• Flabellum gracile Wells, J.W. 1958. Scleractinian corals. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31 6(11): 257-275 [269].
• Flabellum campanulatum Squires, D.F. 1960. Additional rhizangiid corals from the Wanganui Series. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 1 3: 1-7 [1-2].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Squires, D.F. 1963. Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 20: 43 [11-41]
• 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 [105-107]

Generic Combinations

• Flabellum rubrum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1947. Coelenterata. pp. 4-9 in Gill, B.J. (ed). Native Animals of New Zealand. Auckland : Auckland Museum Handbook of Zoology, University Press Ltd (3rd edition: 1987). [8]
• Monomyces rubrum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  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 [79]
• Flabellum rubrum rubrum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). —
  Squires, D.F. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary Corals of New Zealand. Paleontological Bulletin of New Zealand, Geological Survey 29: 107 pp. [65-66]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 0-410 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 [79]

Squires, D.F. 1963. Flabellum rubrum (Quoy and Gaimard). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 20: 43 [11-41]

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