Species Oculina virgosa Squires, 1958
Compiler and date details
05-Oct-2010 - Marcelo V. Kitahara
- Oculina virgosa Squires, D.F. 1958. The Cretaceous and Tertiary Corals of New Zealand. Paleontological Bulletin of New Zealand, Geological Survey 29: 107 pp. [39, pl. 5, figs. 8-16, text fig. 11].
Type data:
Holotype NZGS CO1219, Sandstone, Waitemata Group, the Funnel, Kaipara HArbour, Auckland, North Island - New Zealand (Altonian, early Miocene).Type locality references:
Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [275].
Distribution
States
Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
The Tasmanian records belongs to specimens collected on Britannia Seamount (depth unknown). Also New Zealand: North Island, Vanuatu
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Colonial, azooxanthellate, attached.
General References
Cairns, S.D. 1991. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 504: 32 pp., 12 pls [10]
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 [40, pl. 4, figs. f, i, pl. 5, figs c, d]
Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 31–167 [60-61]
Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [275]
Cairns, S.D. 2009. Cold-water corals Online Appendix. www.lophelia.org/pdf/Cold-water_Corals_Online_Appendix_000.pdf [4]
Grant-Mackie, J.A. 1993. Marine life through 25 million years. pp. 13-21 in Morton, J.E. A Natural History of Auckland. Auckland : David Bateman Ltd. [16, 17, 20]
Ralph, P.M. & Squires, D.F. 1962. The extant scleractinian corals of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 29: 19 pp., 8 pls [5-6, pl. 1, fig. 7]
Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [22, pl. 1, fig. 3]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19-Oct-2024 | HEXACORALLIA Haeckel, 1896 | 19-Oct-2024 | MOVED | |
| 05-Aug-2022 | FAVIINA Vaughan & Wells, 1943 | 13-Aug-2013 | MOVED | Dr Carden Wallace |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 28-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 13-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |