Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) - Western ...

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Distribution
Western Australia: western Great Australian
Bight; 963-1011 m. Elsewhere: virtually
cosmopolitan, except for continental Antarctic and
boreal North Pacific, but including southeastern
Australia; 35-2460 m (Cairns and Parker 1992).
Genus Thalamophyllia Duchassaing, 1870
Thalamophyllia tenuescens (Gardiner, 1899)
Desmophyllum tenuescens Gardiner, 1899: 161-162,
pi. 19, figs. la-b.
Thalamophyllia tenuescens Cairns, 1995: 78, pi. 21,
figs. g-i (description).-Cairns and Zibrowius,
1997: 133, figs. 17 d-e.
New Records
5tn 16, 13°56'5, 125°3TE (Cassini Island),
"SCUBA depth", 18 VIII 1991, 1, WAM 436-96 (in
part, attached to base of Rhizopsammia verrilli); stn
C7l, NE of Leo Island, Easter Group, Houtman
Abrolhos Islands, 38 m, 1 IX 1972, 4 corallites,
WAM 437-96.
Distribution
Western Australia: continental shelf off Cassini
Island, Kimberley, and Houtman Abrolhos Islands;
38 m. Elsewhere: western Pacific from Philippines
to Kermadec Islands, including off Queensland; 8­
315 m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997).
Genus Asterosmilia Duncan, 1867
Asterosmilia marchadi (Chevalier, 1966)
Dasmosmilia marchadi Chevalier, 1966: 944-949, pi.
5, figs. 3-4.
Asterosmilia marchadi - Zibrowius, 1980: 141-142, pi.
74, figs. A-K (synonymy and description).­
Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 131-132, figs. 17 a-b.
New Records
Lady Basten: stn LB5(s), 11, WAM 30-96; stn
LB5(t), I, WAM 20-96.
Distribution
Western Australia: known only from continental
shelf off Port Hedland; 150-160 m. Elsewhere:
cosmopolitan in tropical seas, except for eastern
Pacific; 32-229 m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997).
Genus Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978
"Rhizosmilia" multipalifera sp. novo
Figure 4 b-