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
Rhizotrochus tuberculatus
(Tenison-Woods, 1879)
Fig. 10 I
Vasillum tuberculatum
Tenison-Woods, 1879b: 93
, pl. 10, figs. 3a,b (
Vic
).–
Stranks, 1993: 21
(
type
deposition
).
Flabellum tubuliferum
Tenison-Woods, 1880b: 301
(
Vic
)
.–
Veron, 1986: 603
(
listed
).
Rhizotrochus radiatus
Dennant, 1904: 2–3
(
Vic
)
.–
Howchin, 1909: 244
(
listed
).–
Stranks, 1993: 21
(
type
deposition
).
Monomyces radiatus
.–
Wells, 1958: 262
(
listed
).–
Squires, 1961: 18
(
listed
); 1966: 172, pl. 1, figs. 1–2 (
Vic
).–
Shepherd & Veron, 1982: 177
, fig. 4.54f (
SA, Vic
).–
Veron, 1986: 603
(
listed
).
Rhizotrochus tuberculatus
.–Cairns & Parker, 1992: 49–50, figs.
16g
–i (
WA, Vic, Tas
).–Johnson, Baarli & Scott, 1995: 95, fig. 9A–C (Pleistocene of
WA
).–
Cairns, 1998: 403
(
WA
).
New records
.
VICTORIA
:
Wilson’s Promontory
,
6–12 m
,
8 February 1982
, 2,
NMV
F67801
;
Port Fairy
, depth unknown, 1,
NMV
F67877
;
Tangaroa
81-T-1-190, 1,
NMV
F67820
.
Types
.
The
holotype
of
V. tuberculatum
is
NMV
F59398
. Type Locality:
Bass Strait
or
Port Phillip Bay
,
Victoria
, depth unknown
.
The
holotype
of
F. tubuliferum
, reputed to be deposited at
AM
, could not be found there in 2002. Type Locality:
Bass Strait
,
Victoria
, depth unknown
.
Possible
paratypes
of
R. radiatus
are deposited at
NMV
(
Stranks, 1993
). Type Locality:
South Australia and Victoria
,
27–40 m
.