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

Azooxanthellate Sc1eractinia of Western Australia
Distribution
Western Australia: continental slope of
northwestern coast from south of Scott Reef to Port
Hedland; 150--404 m; 9.6°-19°C. Elsewhere: Japan
through Indonesia; 60-520 m (Cairns and
Zibrowius 1997).
Balanophyllia generatrix Cairns and Zibrowius,
1997
Balanophyllia generatrix Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997:
183-184, figs. 25 g-i, figs. 26 a-b.
New Records
Soela: stn 01/84/55, 3 quasicolonies: 2 (WAM 17­
85), 1 (USNM 96695); stn 01/84/56, 3
quasicolonies, WAM 564-84; stn 01/84/57, 2
quasicolonies, WAM 16-85; stn 01/84/75, 1
corallum, WAM 798-84; stn 01/84/120, 1
quasicolony, WAM 199-93.
Lady Basten: stn LB7(s), 13 quasicolonies: 11
(WAM 46-96), 2 (USNM 96692).
Distribution
Western Australia: continental slope of
northwestern coast from west of Browse Island to
south of Rowley Shoals; 200-530 m; soft substrates.
Elsewhere: Philippines and Indonesia; 96-535 m
(Cairns and Zibrowius 1997).
Balanophyllia spp.
Records
Soela: stn 02/82/9, 1, WAM 96-83; stn 02/82/
lOA, 10, WAM 46- and 450-96; stn 02/82/13A, 2,
WAM 83- and 93-84; stn 05/82/46, 1, WAM 68­
83; stn 05/82/47, 1, WAM 64-83; 05/82/59, 1,
WAM 704-84.
Sprightly: stn 35M, 1, WAM 362-79.
Diamantina: stn 92, 1, WAM 146-83.
Dorothea: 150 mi (240 km) ENE Troughton Island,
91 m, 1, WAM 258-93.
Other records: Abrolhos Islands, coIl. Dakin, 1915,
1, WAM 128-58.
Remarks
The taxonomy of the approximately 54 valid
Recent species (Best et al. 1995) of
Balanophyllia is in need of revision. Whereas
four species can be identified with some
confidence from Western Australia, additional
species occur off this coast from the Arafura
Sea to Abrolhos (34-201 m), represented by
the unidentified specimens listed above. But,
until additional specimens are collected from
this coast, and the taxonomy of the genus is
better known, these specimens will remain
unidentified.
Genus Endopachys Lonsdale, 1845
Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards and Haime,
1848b
405
Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848b:
82---83, pI. 1, figs. 2, 2a.-Veron, 1986: 610, black
and white fig.-eairns, 1994: 84---85, pI. 36, figs.
e, h, pI. 37, fig. i (synonymy and description);
1995: 121-122, pI. 41, figs. c-h (description).­
Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 185-186.
New Records
Soela: stn 05/82/47, 1, WAM 65-83.
Diamantina: stn 185, 1, WAM 451-96.
Lady Basten: stn LB5(s), 4, WAM 457-96; stn
LB5(t), 1, WAM 16-96.
Other records: between Shark Bay and Onslow, no
depth, coIl. W. and W. Poole, 1966, 1, WAM 168---83.
Remarks
Veron (1986) listed another Recent species of
Endopachys from Australia: E. australiae Tenison
Woods, 1878b (type locality: Port Jackson, NSW,
146 m); however, the original description and
figure of E. australiae are not consistent with a
placement in this genus.
Distribution
Western Australia: continental shelf of
northwestern coast off Port Hedland and Cape
Farquhar; 128-150 m. Elsewhere: Indo-Pacific from
southwestern Indian Ocean to Gulf of California,
including Japan, New Zealand, and Hawaiian
Islands; 37-386 m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997).
Endopachys bulbosa Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997
Figure 8 k-l
Endopachys bulbosa Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997:
186, figs. 27 a-g.
New Record
Soela: stn 01/84/85, 1, WAM 678-84.
Distribution
Western Australia: off Cape Leveque (south of
Scott Reef); 220-224 m. Elsewhere: Arafura Sea
south of Tanimbar Islands; 233-251 m (Cairns and
Zibrowius, 1997).
Genus Notophyllia Dennant, 1899
Notophyllia piscacauda sp. novo
Figure 9 a-e
Notophyllia sp. Cairns and Parker, 1992: 52 rsixth
undescribed species").
Records
King George Sound, 40-51 m, Verco collection,