Species Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) dennanti Cairns & Parker, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) dennanti 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 [7-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F56882 One specimen (Kimbla stn. 79-K-1-34), Eastern Bass Strait, Flinders Canyon [39º38.7'S / 148º49.4'E, 770 m].
  Paratype(s) SAMA H357 32 fragments, South Australia, 64km SW of Neptune Island, 190 m.; USNM 85676 9 fragments, South Australia, 64km SW of Neptune Island, 190 m.

  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 [7-8].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Deep water.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 190-770 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [270]

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