Species Truncatoflabellum cumingi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum cumingii 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 [275] ([plate 8, figure 11]).

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM 81977 One specimen, Molucca Passage off Halmahera (Teluk Kau) [1°08.6'N / 128°01'E, 46-55 m].

  Subsequent designation 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 [69] ([plate 35, figures f-i, of which f-h are from the neotype]).
• Flabellum irregulare Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On the extra-tropical corals of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 292-341 [Flabellum irregulare Tenison-Woods, 1878 is a junior primary homonym of Flabellum irregulare Semper, 1872, both species now attributed to Truncatoflabellum (Cairns, 2004)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS uncatalogued One specimen, off Port Stephens, New South Wales, 128 m.

  Type locality references:

  Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On the extra-tropical corals of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 292-341 [313].

Generic Combinations

• Truncatoflabellum cumingi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848). —
  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 [69]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 46-132 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [309]

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