Species Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) variegatus Cairns, 1989

Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) variegatus, upper and lower surfaces, and side view of skeleton.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Fungiacyathus variegatus 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 [11-12].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 81761 One specimen, Verde Island Passage, Luzon, 291 m. [13°52'N / 120°51'E].
  Paratype(s) USNM 81762 Nine specimens, Verde Island Passage, Luzon, 291 m. [13°52'N / 120°51'E]; AM G15254 One specimen, Verde Island Passage, Luzon, 291 m. [13°52'N / 120°51'E]; USNM 81763 11 specimens (ALB-5278), [14°00'10"N / 120º17'15''E, 186 m.]; USNM 81764 58 specimens (ALB-5314), [21°41'00''N / 116º46'00''E, 223 m.]; USNM 81765 54 specimens (ALB-5403), [11º10'00''N / 124º17'15''E, 333 m.].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 84-715 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [38-39]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [370]

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 [73-74]

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