Species Peponocyathus folliculus (Pourtalès, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stephanophyllia folliculus Pourtalès, L.F. de 1868. Contributions to the Fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths (2nd series). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1(7): 121-141.

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ unnumbered (Bibb sta. 51), Straits of Florida [24°12'40"N / 81°19'25"W, 433 m].

  Type locality references:

  Pourtalès, L.F. de 1868. Contributions to the Fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths (2nd series). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1(7): 121-141 [139]; Cairns, S.D. 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 57(180): 341 pp., 40 pls., 60 maps [113–115].

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Peponocyathus orientalis 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.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 43423 Five syntypes (Deposited at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Tohoku (Imperial) University, Sendai. Japan), Pleistocene of Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands.

  Type locality references:

  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 [444-445]; Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [67].

  Secondary source:

   Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [66-67]; 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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cairns, S.D. 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 57(180): 341 pp., 40 pls., 60 maps [113–115]
• Zibrowius, H. 1980. Les Scléractiniaires de la Méditeranee et de l'Atlantique nord-orientale. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 11: 284 p. [113-115]
• 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 [146]
• Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [299]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, free

History of changes