Species Truncatoflabellum paripavoninum (Alcock, 1894)

Calicular and lateral view of Truncatoflabellum paripavoninum

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Flabellum pari-pavoninum Alcock, A.W. 1894. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer Investigator. Series 2, number 15. On some new and rare corals from the deep waters of India. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2 62: 186–188 [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype The holotype is presumed to be deposited at the Indian Museum, Calcutta (Gardiner, 1902) One specimen, Laccadive Sea, Indian Ocean [13°47'49"N / 73°07'E, 1163 m].

  Type locality references:

  Alcock, A.W. 1894. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer Investigator. Series 2, number 15. On some new and rare corals from the deep waters of India. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2 62: 186–188 [187]; Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329.

Generic Combinations

• Truncatoflabellum paripavoninum (Alcock, 1894). —
  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 [72-73]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Flabellum paripavoninum Alcock, 1898. —
  Alcock, A.W. 1898. An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 29 pp. [21]
• Flabellum sp. Alcock, 1902. —
  Alcock, A. 1902. Report on the deep sea Madreporaria of the Siboga expedition. Siboga Expeditie 16a: 1–55 [31]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 394-1450 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 [113-114]

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

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]

Faustino, L.A. 1927. Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. Monographs of the Bureau of Science. Manila 22: 1–310 [46-47]

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 [111-114]

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