Species Truncatoflabellum formosum Cairns, 1989

Calicular and lateral view of Truncatoflabellum formosum

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• Truncatoflabellum formosum 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 [69-70] ([plate 35, figures j-k, plate 36, figures a-b; (in part: not Albatross stns. 5137, 5484, 5162, and 5483)]).

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 81953 One specimen (Albatross stn. 5249), Philippines, depth unknown [7°06'06''N / 125°40'08''E, 42 m].
  Paratype(s) USNM 40778 Three specimens (Albatross stn. 5265), [13°41'15''N / 120°00'50''E, 247 m]; USNM 81954 One specimen (Albatross stn. 5289), [13°41'50''N / 120°58'30''W, 314 m]; USNM 40786 One specimen (Albatross stn. 5658), [3°32'40''S / 120°31'30''W, 933 m].

  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.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 42-933 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [77]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [396]

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

Cairns, S.D. & Keller, N.B. 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum 5 103: 213–292 13 figs [265]

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 [169-170]

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 [110-112]

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