Species Letepsammia superstes (Ortmann, 1888)

Calicular and lateral views of Letepsammia superstes

© Copyright Marcelo V. Kitahara

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stephanophyllia superstes Ortmann, A. 1888. Studien uber Systematik und geographische Verbreitung der Steinkorallen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 4: 143-188.

  Type data:

   Holotype MS, Sagami Bay, Japan.
• Stephanophyllia japonica Yabe, H. & Eguchi, M. 1932. Deep-water corals from the Riukiu limestone of Kikai-jima. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Japan 8: 442-445 [443].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 50236 Two specimens (Specimens deposited at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku (Imperial) University, Sendai, Japan), Pleistocene limestone of the Ryukyu Islands.

  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 [34-35].

Generic Combinations

• Letepsammia formosissima forma superstes. —
  Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [40-41]
• Micrabacia japonica (Yabe & Eguchi, 1932). —
  Omura, A. 1983. Uranium-series ages of some solitary corals from the Riuku Limestone on the Kikai-jima, Riuku Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 130: 117-122 [119]

Distribution

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 77-710 m.

General 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 [59]

Cairns, S.D. & Zibrowius, H. 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 172: 27–243 [75]

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 [25-27]

History of changes