Species Stephanophyllia complicata Moseley, 1876

Calicular and lateral views of Stephanophyllia complicata

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stephanophyllia complicata Moseley, H.N. 1876. Preliminary report to Professor Wyville Thomson ... on the true corals dredged by the H.M.S. “Challenger” in deep water between the dates Dec. 30th, 1870 and August 31st, 1875. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 24: 544–569 [558-561].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1880.11.25.155A-B Two specimens (Challenger stn. 192), off Kai Islands, Banda Sea, 236 m. [5º42'S / 132º25'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, unattached, depth range: 73-1137 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 [37-38]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [363]

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 [77-78]

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 [29-31]

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