Species Polymyces wellsi Cairns, 1991

Calicular and lateral view of Polymyces wellsi

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Polymyces wellsi 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 [308].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 84836 One specimen (Johson-Sea-Link stn. 1916), Española, Galápagos [1°18.7'S / 89°48.8'W, 545-562 m].
  Paratype(s) USNM 84837 Five specimens, Española, Galápagos [1°18.7'S / 89°48.8'W, 545-562 m]; USNM 84838 Two specimens (Johnson-Sea-Link stn. 1921), Galápagos [0°17.0'N / 89°59.8'W, 680-720 m]; USNM 84839 One specimen (Johnson-Sea-Link stn. 1935), Galápagos [0°15.2'S / 91°27.9'W, 252-308 m]; USNM 77273 Two specimens (Albatross 2818 (Javania pseudolabastra of Wells, 1983)), Galápagos [0°29.0'S / 89°54.5'W, 717].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Deep-water, solitary, azooxanthellate, fixed, depth range: 355-1203 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

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

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

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

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

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