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
562
1
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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
Placotrochides frustum Cairns, 1979
Fig. 12B
Placotrochides frusta
Cairns, 1979: 152-153, pl. 29, figs 4-6, 8-9, map 43.
Placotrochides frustra
:
Zibrowius 1980
: 159-161, pl. 81E-M.
Placotrochides frustum
:
Cairns 2004
: 307 (key, nom. correct.).
New records.
CRYOS,
Balgim
CP85,
34°24'N
,
7°39'W
, 1378 m, 15 specimens, MNHN; Professor Logachev 37L 165,
16°54.014'N
,
46°34.842'W
, 2646-2705 m, 6 Mar 2015, 1, USNM 1295415, 1, IOM Moscow; Professor Logachev 37L 188,
17°08.470'N
,
46°23.443'W
, 2291-2327 m, 12 Mar 2015, 1, IOM Moscow.
Distribution.
Lesser Antilles, off northeastern Brazil, mid-Atlantic Ridge at latitude of Lesser Antilles, off Morocco, 497-2646 m.
Remarks.
The specimens reported herein from the mid-Atlantic Ridge are much larger than any previously reported, having a GCD up to 10.2 mm and a height of 13.9 mm, the calice having corresponding more septa, i.e., S1-2>S3>S4, 12:12:12, or 36 septa. The largest previously known specimen was only 5.0 mm in GCD and had 26 septa. They also represent a considerable depth range extension.