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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. A, B Javania insignis (SAMC _ A 090116, off Port Dunford, 85 m) A calicular view B lateral view C, D Placotrochides scaphula (USNM 91772, off Scottburgh, 1360 m) C calicular view D calicular view E, H Rhizotrochus typus E, F (SAMC _ A 090094, off Coffee Bay, 160 m) E calicular view F lateral view G, H (SCD 39 B, off Coffee Bay, 160 m) G calicular view H lateral view I, J Truncatoflabellum formosum (SAM _ H 1389, off Shaka's Rock, 183 m) I calicular view J lateral view K, L Truncatoflabellum gardineri (SAM _ H 3847, off Shaka's Rock, 138 m) K calicular view L lateral view M, N Truncatoflabellum inconstans (SAM _ H 1241, off Kei Mouth, 66 m) M calicular view N lateral view O, P Truncatoflabellum multispinosum (SAMC _ A 087450, locality data unknown) O calicular view P lateral view. Scale bars: 10 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604115" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 12O-P.</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Cairns in Cairns & Keller" authorityYear="1993" class="Anthozoa" family="Flabellidae" genus="Truncatoflabellum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Truncatoflabellum multispinosum" order="Scleractinia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="multispinosum">Truncatoflabellum multispinosum</taxonomicName>
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Cairns in Cairns & Keller, 1993: 268 and 272, figs 11H, 12A-C. -
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<bibRefCitation author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="Atoll Research Bulletin" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 46" refId="B42" refString="Cairns, S, 1999b. Species richness of recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin 459: 1 - 46" title="Species richness of recent Scleractinia." volume="459" year="1999 b">Cairns 1999b</bibRefCitation>
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: 32. -
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<bibRefCitation author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 48" refId="B49" refString="Cairns, S, 2016. 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. ZooKeys 562: 1 - 48" title="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." volume="562" year="2016">Cairns 2016</bibRefCitation>
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: 32, fig. 8D. -
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<bibRefCitation author="Tenjing, S" journalOrPublisher="Vie Mileu" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="89 - 93" refId="B279" refString="Tenjing, S, Krishnan, P, Samuel, V, Purvaja, R, 2019. Truncatoflabellum madrasensis sp. nov. - a new ahermatypic coral species from India: a checklist of species under genus Truncatoflabellum from the Indian ocean. Vie Mileu 69 (2-3): 89 - 93" title="Truncatoflabellum madrasensis sp. nov. - a new ahermatypic coral species from India: a checklist of species under genus Truncatoflabellum from the Indian ocean." volume="69" year="2019">Tenjing et al. 2019</bibRefCitation>
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: 92. -
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<bibRefCitation author="Kitahara, M" journalOrPublisher="Publications Scientifiques du Museum, Paris" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B154" refString="Kitahara, M, Cairns, S, 2021. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 32: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Publications Scientifiques du Museum, Paris" title="Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 32: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle." year="2021">Kitahara and Cairns 2021</bibRefCitation>
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: 251, 253, figs 128, 131A-D.
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Off Quissico, south-eastern Mozambique (RV
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); 90-92 m (
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).
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The holotype and most paratypes are deposited at NMNH, whilst one paratype is deposited at the SAM (
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).
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SAMC_A087450 (
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unknown.
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SAM_H4580 (
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:13857A0A3859EF1A1284966D6852A3E2:BA79C66602C87723B2967F3F4294881A" county="Elsies Estuary" latitude="-25.116667" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="34.566666" municipality="Ponta Do Ouro" name="Eastern">Eastern</location>
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margin,
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<collectingMunicipality>Ponta Do Ouro</collectingMunicipality>
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<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" unit="km" value="1.0">1 km</quantity>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="2021-01-01" collectingDateMax="2021-12-31" collectingDateMin="2021-01-01" county="Mgobezeleni Estuary" elevation="75" latitude="-27.522667" location="Eastern" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="32.819664" municipality="Cape Vidal" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="paratype">
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:13857A0A3859EF1A1284966D6852A3E2:0B4155E119A74DDE1FA4E0BA30C63D74" county="Mgobezeleni Estuary" latitude="-27.522667" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="32.819664" municipality="Cape Vidal" name="Eastern">Eastern</location>
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margin,
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<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.3" unit="km" value="73.0">73 km</quantity>
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from
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<collectingMunicipality>Cape Vidal</collectingMunicipality>
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<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.7" unit="km" value="17.0">17 km</quantity>
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off
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<collectingCounty>Mgobezeleni Estuary</collectingCounty>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="27" direction="south" minutes="31" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="21.60" value="-27.522667">27°31'21.60"S</geoCoordinate>
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;
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<elevation metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.5" unit="m" value="75.0">75 m</elevation>
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.
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Corallum medium-sized (GCD ~25.0 mm) and sub-cylindrical. Calice elliptical (GCD:LCD = 2.05-2.80), with a thin and slightly serrated calicular margin. Basal scar 8.9
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4.9 mm in diameter, with 24 complete septa observable on scar. Largest anthocyathus examined (SAMC_A087450) 22.3
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11.9 mm in CD, and 18.4 mm in H. Five pairs of slender and rounded thecal spines occur on thecal edges. Thecal faces diverge in an angle ~ 55°, and thecal edges ~ 30°. Corallum white, with theca being faintly greenish brown.
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Septa decamerally arranged in five cycles, last being incomplete, according to the formula: S1-2> S3> S4> S5 (84 septa). S1-2 slightly larger than S3, but all having vertical and slightly sinuous axial margins. S4
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the width of S1-3 and bear sinuous and slightly dentate axial margin. S5 rudimentary. Septal faces covered with granules obliquely aligned in rows along axial septal margin. Fossa deep with a trabecular columella formed by the fusion of lower axial margins of S1-3.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Regional: Eastern margin of South Africa, off Cape Vidal extending towards Elsies Estuary (256 km south of Ponta Do Ouro: Mozambique); 67-75 m. Elsewhere: Zanzibar; Mozambique; Madagascar (
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); New Caledonia (
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);
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<bibRefCitation author="Kitahara, M" journalOrPublisher="Publications Scientifiques du Museum, Paris" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B154" refString="Kitahara, M, Cairns, S, 2021. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 32: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Publications Scientifiques du Museum, Paris" title="Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 32: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle." year="2021">Kitahara and Cairns 2021</bibRefCitation>
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62-350 m.
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is well described by
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<bibRefCitation author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="213 - 292" refId="B50" refString="Cairns, S, Keller, N, 1993. New taxa distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the tropical southwest Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum 103 (5): 213 - 292" title="New taxa distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the tropical southwest Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology." volume="103" year="1993">Cairns and Keller (1993)</bibRefCitation>
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, who outline the variation in symmetry and number of septa in relation to corallum size. The two newly examined specimens represent a medium-sized anthocyathus (above description is based on this specimen).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Cairns in Cairns & Keller" authorityYear="1993" class="Anthozoa" family="Flabellidae" genus="Truncatoflabellum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Truncatoflabellum multispinosum" order="Scleractinia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="multispinosum">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Truncatoflabellum multispinosum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName genus="T." lsidName="T. vanuatu" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="vanuatu">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. vanuatu</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(Wells, 1984) are the only two Recent species reported to have ≤ five pairs of thecal spines. However,
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<taxonomicName genus="T." lsidName="T. multispinosum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="multispinosum">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">T. multispinosum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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differs by having a larger corallum, greater thecal edge angle range, and a higher number of septa (
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<bibRefCitation author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="213 - 292" refId="B50" refString="Cairns, S, Keller, N, 1993. New taxa distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the tropical southwest Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum 103 (5): 213 - 292" title="New taxa distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the tropical southwest Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology." volume="103" year="1993">Cairns and Keller 1993</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Cairns, S" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 48" refId="B49" refString="Cairns, S, 2016. 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. ZooKeys 562: 1 - 48" title="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." volume="562" year="2016">Cairns 2016</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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