Species Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) fragilis Sars, 1872

calicular and lateral views of Fungiacyathus (F.) fragilis

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars, G.O. 1872. On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast I. University Program for the first half-year 1869. Christiania. 1-82 pp.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) B626 One specimen (Oslo Museum), Skraaven in Lofoten (Norway), 549 m.

  Type locality 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 [32].
• Bathyactis hawaiiensis Vaughan, T.W. 1907. Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 59: 1-427 [145-147].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 20834 One specimen (Albatross stn. 4125), between Oahu and Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, 1761-2056 m.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 200-2200 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 1 3: 74 [18 pls., 14 maps] [7]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [369]

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 [60-62]

Zibrowius, H. 1980. Les Scléractiniaires de la Méditeranee et de l'Atlantique nord-orientale. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 11: 284 p. [23-24]

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