Placotrochides scaphula Alcock, 1902

Cairns, Stephen D., 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, pp. 1-48 : 23

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Placotrochides scaphula Alcock, 1902 Fig. 11C

Placotrochides scaphula Alcock, 1902: 34, pl. 4, figs 32, 32a.- Cairns 1989b: 45, 78-79, pls. 40l, 41 a–e (synonymy).- Cairns and Parker 1992: 48-49, figs 15 h–i.- Cairns and Keller 1993: 272-273, figs 12D, G.- Cairns 1994: 79-80, pl. 34 f–h; 1995: 116-117, pls. 38j, 39a.- Cairns and Zibrowius 1997: 174; 2004: 307.- Cairns and Kitahara 2012: pl. 20, figs N–O.

Flabellum elongatum Hu, 1987: 44, pl. 3, figs 4, 7-8 (also a junior homonym of Flabellum elongatum Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 275).

Distribution.

Plio-Pleistocene: southern Taiwan ( Hu 1987). Holocene: off Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, off Victoria and Queensland, Australia, southwest Indian Ocean, 80-1628 m.

Remarks.

A replacement name for junior primary homonym Flabellum elongatum Hu, 1987 is not necessary, as the senior homonym is considered to belong to Truncatoflabellum and Hu’s species to Placotrochides .