Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) - Western ...
Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) - Western ...
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<strong>Azooxanthellate</strong> <strong>Scleractinia</strong> of <strong>Western</strong> Australia<br />
New Records<br />
Soela: stn 02/82/17, 1, WAM 23-83; stn 02/82/<br />
18, 1, WAM 24-83; stn 02/82/31, 1, WAM 29-83;<br />
stn 02/82/43, 1, WAM 42-83; stn 02/82/46, 1,<br />
WAM 43-83; 01/84/54, 1, WAM 438-96; stn 01/<br />
84/59, 1, WAM 572-84; stn 01/84/60, 1, WAM<br />
573-84; stn 01/84/67, 13: 8 (WAM 769-84), 5<br />
(USNM 97013); stn 01/84/71, 1, WAM 537-84; stn<br />
01/84/77,1, WAM 525-84; stn 01/84/119, 2, WAM<br />
784-84; stn 01/84/121,1, WAM 401-86; stn 01/84/<br />
122,2: 1 (WAM 728-84), 1 (USNM 97014); stn 04A/<br />
82/8B, 2, WAM 46-83.<br />
Courageous: stn 003, 3, WAM 40-84; stn 015, 2,<br />
WAM 39-84; stn 017, 1, WAM 34-84; stn 018, 2,<br />
WAM 35-84; stn 026, 5: 3 (WAM 41-84), 2 (USNM<br />
97015).<br />
Lady: stn RW96-31, 3: 2 (NlM C8092); 1 (USNM<br />
98516).<br />
Distribution<br />
<strong>Western</strong> Australia: continental slope of<br />
northwestern coast from near Browse Island to<br />
off Port Hedland; 306-506 m; 7.8°-12.0°C; soft<br />
(muddy) substrates. Elsewhere: western Pacific<br />
from Japan through Indonesia, and western<br />
Sumatra; 225-700 m (Cairns and Zibrowius<br />
1997).<br />
Flabellum (F.) lamellulosum Alcock, 1902a<br />
Flabellum lamellulosum Alcock, 1902a: 105-106.<br />
Cairns, 1989: 52-53, pL 27, figs. a-I (synonymy<br />
and description).-Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997:<br />
152-153, fig. 21 a.<br />
New Records<br />
Soela : stn 02/82/38, 1, WAM 111-83; stn 02/<br />
82/41, 1, WAM 40-83; stn 02/82/45, 1, WAM<br />
41-83; stn 01/84/54, 8: 5 (WAM 552-84), 3<br />
(USNM 97017); stn 01/84/55, 1, WAM 554-84;<br />
stn 01/84/56, 1, WAM 563-84; stn 01/84/65, 1,<br />
WAM 665-84; stn 01/84/66, 1, WAM 667-84; stn<br />
01/84/67, 1, WAM 743-84; stn 01/84/74, 1,<br />
USNM 97018; stn 01/84/122, 1, WAM 439-96;<br />
stn 04A/82/8A, 2, WAM 45-83; stn 04/82/8C, 1,<br />
WAM 44-83.<br />
Courageous; stn 003, 3, WAM 440-96; stn 020, 1,<br />
USNM 97016.<br />
Umataka Maru; stn 6930,1, WAM 261-93.<br />
Lady: stn RW96-18, 13: 10 (NTM C8081), 3<br />
(USNM 98514).<br />
Distribution<br />
<strong>Western</strong> Australia: continental slope of<br />
northwestern coast from south of Cartier Island to<br />
Port Hedland; 280-450 m; 9.1°-10.0°C; soft<br />
(muddy) substrates. Elsewhere: western Pacific<br />
from South China 5ea through Indonesia; 187-486<br />
m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997).<br />
Flabellum (F.) patens Moseley, 1881<br />
Flabellum patens Moseley, 1881: 172 (in part: pL 6,<br />
fig. 15).-Cairns, 1989: 51-52, pL 26, figs. a-i<br />
(synonymy); 1994: 71-72, pI. 31, figs g-i.<br />
Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 152, fig. 20 i.<br />
New Record<br />
Lady: stn RW96-18, 1, NlM C8078.<br />
Distribution<br />
<strong>Western</strong> Australia: continental slope south of<br />
Cartier Island; 280 m. Elsewhere: western Pacific<br />
from Japan through Indonesia; 204-439 m (Cairns<br />
and Zibrowius 1997).<br />
Flabellum (F.) folkesoni sp. novo<br />
Figure 6 e-i<br />
Records<br />
Other records: unknown station "between Shark<br />
Bay and Onslow", coIL W. and W. Poole, 1966,<br />
depth not known, holotype (WAM 173-83) and 23<br />
paratypes (WAM 170-83 and 260-93).<br />
Soela: stn 01/18, 1 paratype, WAM 212-92; stn<br />
02/82/9, 5 paratypes: 2 (WAM 98-83), 3 (USNM<br />
97019); stn 04B/82/74, 1 paratype, WAM 609-88;<br />
stn 05/82/47,1 paratype, WAM 62-83.<br />
Lady Basten: stn LB4(s), r pa:r:atype, WAM 12-96;<br />
stn LB5(s), 27 paratypes: 26' (WAM 27-96), 1<br />
(U5NM 96586); stn LB5(t), 21 paratypes: 18 (\AIAM<br />
23-96), 3 (USNM 97020); stn LB6(s), 6 paratypes,<br />
WAM 40-96; stn LB6(t), 1 paratype, WAM 38-96.<br />
Type Locality<br />
"Between Shark Bay and Onslow, WA"; depth<br />
unknown.<br />
Description<br />
Angle of thecal edges 180°-210°; angle of thecal<br />
faces 27°-30°. Corallum robust and dense; one of<br />
largest specimens (the holotype) measures 42.3 x<br />
22.5 mm in calicular diameter and 35.6 mm in<br />
height. GCD:H = 0.92-1.19. Pedicel short (3.3-3.6<br />
mm) and small (only 1.1-1.2 mm in diameter).<br />
Thecal faces flat, usually encrusted with calcareous<br />
epifauna, but glisteny (not granular); wellpreserved<br />
coralla bear thin reddish-brown stripes<br />
corresponding to the SI-6. Thecal faces meet in<br />
sharp, carinate edges, forming irregular spurs, as<br />
in F. lamellulosum, which result from successive<br />
downward eversions of the two principal costae<br />
followed by subsequent retrenchment of the<br />
calicular edge. Septa hexamerally arranged in 7<br />
cycles, the seventh only partially complete iJ.i. the<br />
holotype (274 septa); septa formula:, 51<br />
4>55>S6>57. Inner edges of 51-4 highly sinuous<br />
(551 about 4.0), occurring closely parallel- to edges<br />
of SI-4 from opposing face. Upper. edges.of 51-4