Species Letepsammia fissilis Cairns, 1995

Museums

Regional Maps

• Letepsammia fissilis 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 [35-36].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ CO281 One specimen, off North Cape [34º20'S / 173º06'E, 163-168 m.].
  Paratype(s) MONZ CO308 One specimen (BS770 (R128)), [37*33.4'S / 178*48.3'E, 106 m.]; MONZ CO287 18 specimens (BS833), [32º32'S / 167º31'E, 113 m.]; MONZ CO281 10 specimens (BS881), [34º20'E / 173º06'E, 163-168 m.]; MONZ CO223 Two specimens (BS897), [34º02'S / 171º46'E, 206-221 m.]; NZOI P-1007 Two specimens (NZOI stn. E256), [34*39.0'S / 172°20.0'E, 157 m.]; NZOI P-1008 Four specimens (NZOI stn. E261), [34*35.0'S / 172*15.0'E, 161]; NZOI P-1009 Two specimens (NZOI stn. E359), [34*34.0'S / 173*20.0'E, 172 m.]; NZOI P-1010 One specimen (NZOI stn. P5), [32*36.4'S / 167*30.6'E, 126 m.]; USNM 94085 Six specimens (BS833), [37º38'S / 178º56'E, 143-153 m.]; USNM 94086 Three specimens (BS881), [34º20'E / 173º06'E, 163-168 m.]; USNM 81868 Six specimens (Ikatere stn. B26), [35º04'S / 174º23'E, 185 m.]; USNM 81869 10 specimens (Lachlan), [37º39'S / 178º34'E, 183 m.].

Generic Combinations

• Letepsammia sp. —
  Squires, D.F. 1964. Biological results of the Chatham Island 1954 expedition. Part 6: Scleractinia. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 29: 31 [3]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 106-458 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [371]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [271]

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