Species Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) stephanus (Alcock, 1902)

Calicular and lateral views of Fungiacyathus (F.) stephanus

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Bathyactis stephanus Alcock, A. 1893. On some newly-recorded corals from the Indian seas. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 62(2): 138–149.

  Type data:

   Holotype IM ? One specimen (Investigator stn. 133), off Kistna Delta, Bay of Bengal, 1240 m. [15º43'30''N / 81º19'30''E].

  Type locality 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 [7-8].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 245-2000 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 [7-8]

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 [66-68]

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