Species Gardineria hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907

Gardineria hawaiiensis, side views and upper surface of skeleton.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Gardineria hawaiiensis Vaughan, T.W. 1907. Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 59: 1-427 [65-66, pl. 4, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 20731 One specimen (Albatross Stn 3991), Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, 497-541 m [22*15'25''N, 159*23'15''W].

  Type locality references:

  Vaughan, T.W. 1907. Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 59: 1-427 [65-66] (pl. 4, fig. 1); 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 [110].
• Gardineria musorstomica 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 [82-85, Pl. 42c, e-g].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP One specimen (MUSORSTOM Stn 2-32), Philippines, 192-220 m. [13*40.5'N, 120*53.9'E].

  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 [110-111].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gardineria sp. A. —
  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 [111]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bathymetric range: 142-1200m.

Ecological Descriptors

Deep water, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Azooxanthellate, Solitary, Fixed, depth range: 142-1200 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 [82-83] (as G. musorstomica)

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 [110, pl.36, figs c-f, i] (synonymy & description)

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [404]

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