Species Rhombopsammia niphada Owens, 1986

Calicular and lateral views of Rhombopsammia niphada

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhombopsammia niphada Owens, J.M. 1986. Rhombopsammia, a new genus of the family Micrabaciidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(2): 248–256 [252-255].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM One specimen (Albatross stn. 4911), East China Sea [31º38’N / 129º19’E, 715 m.].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 390-852 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [371]

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 [75-76]

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 [27-29]

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