The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia
Author
Cairns, S. D.
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2004
56
259
329
journal article
2201-4349
Truncatoflabellum cumingi
(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
Figs. 10J,K
Flabellum cumingii
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848a: 275
, pl. 8, fig. 11.
Not
Flabellum irregulare
Semper, 1872: 242
.
Flabellum irregulare
Tenison-Woods, 1878b: 313
(
NSW
) new synonym.–
Wells, 1964: 109
(
listed
).–
Veron, 1986: 603
(
listed
).
Flabellum rubrum
.–
Crossland, 1952: 105–106
(
Qld
).–Stephenson & Wells, 1956: 56 (
listed
).–
Wells, 1964: 108
(listed
).
Truncatoflabellum cumingi
.–
Cairns, 1989a: 69
, pl. 35f–i (synonymy, description,
neotype
designation).
New record
.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
: KH72-1-30, 1, USNM 97519.
Types
.
The
neotype
of
F. cumingii
, designated by
Cairns (1989a)
, is deposited at
USNM
(81976). Type Locality:
1°08.6'N
128°01'E
(Halmahera),
46–55 m
.
The uncatalogued
holotype
of
F. irregulare
Tenison-Woods, 1878
is deposited at the
Macleay Museum
(
Figs. 10J,K
). Type Locality: off
Port Stephens
,
New South Wales
,
128 m
.
Remarks
.
Flabellum irregulare
Tenison-Woods, 1878b
is a junior primary homonym of
Flabellum irregulare
Semper, 1872
, both species now attributed to
Truncatoflabellum
. A replacement name for the Tenison-Woods species is not proposed as it appears to be a junior synonym of
T. cumingi
.