Species Rhizotrochus tuberculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vasillum tuberculatum Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some corals from Darnley Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: I28-131.

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F59398 One specimen, Bass Strait or Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, depth unknown.

  Type locality references:

  Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On three new genera and one new species of Madreporaria corals. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 92-99 [93] ([plate 10, figures 3a, b]); Stranks, T.N. 1993. Catalogue of recent Cnidaria type specimens in the Museum of Victoria. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 6: 1-26, addendum [21].
• Flabellum tubuliferum Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1880. On a new species of Flabellum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5: 301 [301].

  Type data:

   Holotype (The holotype of F. tubuliferum, reputed to be deposited at AM, could not be found there in 2002 [Cairns, 2004]).

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [308].
• Rhizotrochus radiatus Dennant, J. 1904. Recent corals from the South Australian and Victorian coasts. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 1–11 [2-3].

  Type data:

   Paratype(s) (Possible paratypes of R. radiatus are deposited at NMV (Stranks, 1993)), South Australia and Victoria, 27-40 m.

  Type locality references:

  Dennant, J. 1904. Recent corals from the South Australian and Victorian coasts. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 1–11 [2-3]; Stranks, T.N. 1993. Catalogue of recent Cnidaria type specimens in the Museum of Victoria. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 6: 1-26, addendum [21].

Generic Combinations

• Monomyces radiatus (Dennant, 1904) [Wells, 1958]. —
  Wells, J.W. 1958. Scleractinian corals. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31 6(11): 257-275 [262]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 0-73 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 [79]

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

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

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