Species Truncatoflabellum aculeatum (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

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• Flabellum aculeatum 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.

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 1016 One specimen, Philippines, depth unknown.

  Type locality references:

  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 [272].
• Flabellum spinosum 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 [271] ([plate 8, figure 4]).

  Type data:

   Holotype lost (The type of Flabellum spinosum is lost (Cairns, 1989)), off China, depth unknown.

  Type locality 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 [61, 64].
• Flabellum variabile Semper, C. 1872. Ueber Generationswechsel bei Steinkorallen und uber das M. Edwards' sche Wachsthumsgesetz der Polypen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 2 22: 16-21 [245-251] ([plate 17, plate 18, figures 1-10]).

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMW 8205 150-160 specimens of which 10 are numbered 8205 (Cairns, 1989), Lapinig Canal off Bohol, Philippines, 11-18 m.

  Type locality references:

  Semper, C. 1872. Ueber Generationswechsel bei Steinkorallen und uber das M. Edwards' sche Wachsthumsgesetz der Polypen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 2 22: 16-21; 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 [64].
• Flabellum rubrum Folkeson, F. 1919. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. Part 22: Madreporaria. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 59(1): 1–23 [4-5] ([in part: specimens 2, 3, and 5]).
• Truncatoflabellum aculeatum 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 [61, 64] ([plate 31, figures h-l, plate 32, figures a-c]).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 11-132 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [399-400]

Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 31–167 [123]

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 [166-167]

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