Species Placotrochus laevis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Calicular and lateral view of Placotrochus laevis

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Placotrochus laevis Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Recherches sur les Polypiers. Quatrième Mémoire: Monographie des Astréides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 10: 209-320, pl. 5-9 [283] ([plate 8, figures 15, 15a]).

  Type data:

   Holotype Holotype not located (Cairns, 2004), Philippines.

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [308].
• Placotrochus candeanus Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Recherches sur les Polypiers. Quatrième Mémoire: Monographie des Astréides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 10: 209-320, pl. 5-9 [283-284].

  Type data:

   Holotype Holotype deposition unknown (Cairns, 2004), Les mers de la China.

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [307].
• Placotrochus pedicellatus Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new extra tropical corals. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 131-135 [134-135] ([plate 13, figures 7, 7a]).

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS One specimen (anthocaulus stage), Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland.

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [307].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 6-289 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and Adjacent Waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Microbaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 486: 1–136, 42 pls [75-76]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [401-403]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [308]

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 [175]

Romano, S.L. & Cairns, S.D. 2000. Molecular phylogenetic hypotheses from the evolution of scleractinian corals. Bulletin of Marine Science, University Miami 3 67: 1043-1068 [1048]

Wells, J.W. 1964. Ahermatypic corals from Queensland. Queensland : University of Queensland Press Vol. 6 pp. 107-121. [108]

Zibrowius, H. 1974. Révision du genre Javania et considérations géneerales sur les Flabellidae (Scléractiniaires). Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 71: 48 [21]

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