Species Palythoa caesia Dana, 1846

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palythoa cæsia Dana, J.D. 1846. Zoophytes. United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York : Greenwood Press Vol. 7 pp. i-vi + 740. [427, pl. 30, figs 3, 3a–h].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burnett, W.J., Benzie, J.A.H., Beardmore, J.A. & Ryland, J.S. 1997. Zoanthids (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) from the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, Australia: systematics, evolution and a key to species. Coral Reefs 16: 55-68

Sorokin, Y. I. 1991. Biomass, metabolic rates and feeding of some common reef zoantharians and octocorals. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 729–741

History of changes