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
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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 macroeschara Cairns, 1998
Fig. 4A
Truncatoflabellum macroeschara
Cairns, 1998: 401, Table 4, figs 8
d-e
,
g-
1; 2004: 309 (synonymy).-Kitahara et al. 2010: fig. 1.
Distribution.
Off Western Australia and Queensland, 18-201 m.
Remarks.
Truncatoflabellum macroeschara
belongs to a group of three western Australian species that have very large coralla, often including some S7, the other two species being
Truncatoflabellum veroni
and
Truncatoflabellum angiostomum
. It differs from those two species as well as all others in the genus by having a very large scar diameter.