A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species
Author
Cairns, Stephen D.
text
ZooKeys
2016
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.562.7310
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.562.7310
1313-2970-562-1
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Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae
Truncatoflabellum corbicula (Tenison-Woods, 1880)
Fig. 9C
Flabellum
corbicula
Tenison-Woods, 1880: 13, figs 10
a-b
.-
Squires 1958
: 66 (lectotype designated).
Truncatoflabellum corbicula
:
Cairns 1989b
: 61.
New record.
NZGS 1341, Wharekuri Greensand, Wharekuri, Waitaki Valley, New Zealand, S117/492, Duntroonian (Lower Oligocene), 1 specimen, USNM 67939.
Distribution.
Port Hills, Nelson, and Waitaki Valley, New Zealand (Duntroonian =Lower Oligocene).
Remarks.
The name
corbicula
, Latin for small basket, is treated as a noun in apposition and thus does not match gender with the genus.