Subspecies Flabellum (Ulocyathus) apertum apertum Moseley, 1876

Calicular and lateral views of Flabellum apertum

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• Flabellum apertum 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 [556] ((in part: Challenger stn. 145)).

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH One specimen, off Prince Edward Island [46°40’S / 37°50’E, 367 m.].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH Seven specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 1 3: 74 [18 pls., 14 maps] [44-46].

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 1 3: 74 [18 pls., 14 maps] [44-46].
• Flabellum patagonichum Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [166-167].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (Challenger stn. 305), off Penguin Island, Patagonia,Chile [47*48.3'S / 74*47'W, 220 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [166-167]; 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 [103-104].
• Flabellum raukawaensis Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype MONZ COI86 One specimen, off Palliser Bay, New Zealand [41°33'S / 174°55'E, 695 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [27]; 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 [104-105].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [104-105]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Kitahara, M. V. unpublished data

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, depth range: 220-1575 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 1 3: 74 [18 pls., 14 maps] [44-46]

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 [54]

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 [104-105]

Cairns S.D., Häussermann V. & Försterra G. 2005. A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 1018: 15–46 [42]

Keller, N.B. 1974. New data about some species of madreporarian corals of the genus Flabellum. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 98: 199–212 [205-208] (in part: Subantarctic records)

Kitahara, M.V. 2007. Species richness and distribution of azooxanthellate Scleractinia in Brazil. Bulletin of Marine Science, University Miami 3 81: 497–518 [505]

Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [167-168] (in part: Challenger stn. 145)

Ralph, P.M. & Squires, D.F. 1962. The extant scleractinian corals of New Zealand. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 29: 19 pp., 8 pls [12] (as Flabellum deludens)

Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [26]

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