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<figureCitation id="680E365CA49D4C65FEE3B2E614967735" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. A Tubastraea sp. cf. Tubastraea diaphana (SAM _ H 5103, Cape Vidal, 59 m) A lateral view B Tubastraea micranthus (ORI _ EIb 3, locality data unknown) B full view C, D Flabellum (Flabellum) leptoconus (ORI _ DIIa 1, Port St. Johns, 409 - 440 m) C calicular view D lateral view E, H Flabellum (Flabellum) pavoninum E, F (SAMC _ A 073135, off Coffee Bay, 250 - 280 m) E calicular view F lateral view G, H (SAM _ H 4582, off Shaka's Rock, 150 m) G calicular view H lateral view I, J Flabellum (Flabellum) politum (SAMC _ A 090160, off Shaka's Rock, 53 - 57 m) I calicular view J lateral view K, L Flabellum (Ulocyathus) alabastrum (SAMC _ A 090102, off the Agulhas, 168 m) K calicular view L lateral view M, N Flabellum (Ulocyathus) lowekeyesi (SAM _ H 1695, off Kosi Bay Estuary, 720 - 780 m) M calicular view N lateral view O, P Javania antarctica (SAMC _ A 090150, off Gouritsmond, 333 m) O calicular view P lateral view. Scale bars: 10 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604114" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 11K, L.</figureCitation>
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Moseley in Thompson, 1873: 403, fig. 2. -
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: 169, pl. 7, figs 1, 1A, B, 2, 2A, B, pl. 16, fig. 11. -
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: 148, pl. 77 A-J. -
<bibRefCitation id="4253157304C32CF193604731279E6F7D" author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circular 438" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B31" refString="Cairns, S, 1981. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circular 438" title="Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States." year="1981">Cairns 1981</bibRefCitation>
: 6
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: 318. -
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: 38. pl. 2S, T.
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<taxonomicName id="39F2DE4CB8BCC7F5DE36154F442B7137" authorityName="Duncan" authorityYear="1878" class="Anthozoa" family="Flabellidae" genus="Flabellum" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Flabellum minus" order="Scleractinia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="minus">Flabellum minus</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation id="E152E685DAA2A3FF5BFCE726DFA036DC" author="Duncan, P" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Zoological Society of London" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="235 - 249" refId="B73" refString="Duncan, P, 1878. A description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the expedition of H.M.S. Porcupine in 1869 and 1870. Part 2. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 10 (6): 235 - 249" title="A description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the expedition of H. M. S. Porcupine in 1869 and 1870. Part 2." volume="10" year="1878">Duncan 1878</bibRefCitation>
: 243, pl. 45, figs 10-13.
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. -Cairns 1989: 54.
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Azores (HMS
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); 1829 m (
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Syntypes are deposited at the BMNH (
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).
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<paragraph id="E7099EC9EFDBAEE30ECAA0AA66F60A7A" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
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SAMC_A090102 (
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from Agulhas/
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off Ratels Estuary,
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,
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;
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.
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Corallum unattached with a narrow and circular pedicel. Calice compressed (GCD:LCD = 1.4), with a highly jagged calicular margin. Largest specimen examined 28.3
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19.8 mm in CD, 22.1 mm in H, and 2.2 mm in PD. Thecal faces planar and diverging at an angle of 110°. Thecal edges crested and diverging in an angle of 150° (excluding crests). Thecal crest sinuous. C1-3 well developed and extending from calicular margin towards base. Thin and faint growth ridges, corresponding to higher cycle septa (S4-5) present. Corallum predominantly white, but pedicel and intercostal striae reddish brown.
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Septa arranged in five cycles, last being incomplete, according to the formula: S1-3&gt; S4&gt; S5 (≤ 80 septa). S1-3 equidistant and join columella with moderately sinuous axial margins. S4 ~
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the size of S1-3, and bear sinuous axial margin. S5 rudimentary. Septal faces bear small spines sparsely arranged along the septal margins. Fossa moderately deep, narrow, and containing a rudimentary columella composed by fusion of lower axial margin of larger septa.
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Regional: Western to southern margin of South Africa, off Alexander Bay extending towards Algulhas; 168-1089 m. Elsewhere: Walvis Ridge (
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); Hebrides; Azores; Gulf of Guinea, Georgia towards Davis Strait (
<bibRefCitation id="12214008C37F5AB33F4149D49F9B5C3C" author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circular 438" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B31" refString="Cairns, S, 1981. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circular 438" title="Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States." year="1981">Cairns 1981</bibRefCitation>
); Bahamas (
<bibRefCitation id="36E34EAD7A0F9FC81182F729E0BE7736" author="Zibrowius, H" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de l'Institut oceanographique, Monaco" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B337" refString="Zibrowius, H, 1980. Les Scleractiniaires de la Mediterranee et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental. Memoires de l'Institut oceanographique, Monaco" title="Les Scleractiniaires de la Mediterranee et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental." year="1980">Zibrowius 1980</bibRefCitation>
); 357-2000 m.
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<paragraph id="51B4F913F5233E1F615C014582794E90" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A996E5BF9AA8913BC2ACCC1286823631" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName id="246FC8C593E8DEDA224D002900F7B7AB" authorityName="Moseley" authorityYear="1873" class="Anthozoa" family="Turbinoliidae" genus="Flabellum" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Flabellum (U.) alabastrum" order="Scleractinia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="alabastrum" subGenus="U.">Flabellum (U.) alabastrum</taxonomicName>
is one of the four flabellid species with a constricted corallum and may be mistaken with
<taxonomicName id="145EC929E7BEA5A379EEFFD1922CDA8B" lsidName="F. lowekeyesi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lowekeyesi">
<emphasis id="BBFB31D8B7D264BC588C671CDA87BB3B" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. lowekeyesi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Squires &amp; Ralph, 1965. However, the two species differ in having a shorter, crested lateral edges (LEL: H = 0.3-0.5 vs. 0.9 for
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<emphasis id="CB18B71CF84BEE83072278E6B0A7BA81" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. alabastrum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and a taller corallum (GCD: H = 1.0-1.3 vs. 1.5 for
<taxonomicName id="2FC7D416D16A17B90D0F0298B7024C57" lsidName="F. alabastrum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="alabastrum">
<emphasis id="C7A27E7CCB2AA16D53F84EE93FB105E2" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. alabastrum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
)(
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,
<bibRefCitation id="AD56F13AE5B97D99231B4F4CD865502E" author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 210" refId="B38" refString="Cairns, S, 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 103: 1 - 210" title="The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria Anthozoa)." volume="103" year="1995">1995</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="6B7BF7253AACEDFBD875DD8B5518CA40" authorityName="Moseley" authorityYear="1873" class="Anthozoa" family="Turbinoliidae" genus="Flabellum" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Flabellum (U.) alabastrum" order="Scleractinia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="alabastrum" subGenus="U.">Flabellum (U.) alabastrum</taxonomicName>
is historically only known from the Atlantic, thus the current South African record extends the species distribution to the Indian Ocean (east of Cape Point). Furthermore, the examined specimens confirm that the
<taxonomicName id="D903E1D905DA5969AA30F5D0A135E95B" lsidName="F. alabastrum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="alabastrum">
<emphasis id="F2022FECA8B988FDD6BE485AEEDA24F9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F. alabastrum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is found 189 m shallower than previously known.
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