Truncatoflabellum carinatum Cairns, 1989b

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 : 21-22

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum carinatum Cairns, 1989b Fig. 10C

? Flabellum variabile forma alta Gerth, 1921: 401, pl. 57, fig. 16.- Cairns 1989b: pl. 38f.

Flabellum rubrum : Yabe and Eguchi 1942a: 96-98 (in part: pl. 8, figs 6-12, 20).- Umbgrove 1950: 641, in part: pl. 81, figs 5-6.- Cairns 1989b: pl. 38d.

Truncatoflabellum carinatum Cairns, 1989b: 73-74, Table 6, pl. 38 b–e (synonymy); 1994: 77-78, pl. 33 j–k.

Flabellum transversale : Hu 1987: pl. 3, figs 1-2.

Flabellum rubrum stokesii: Hu 198: 150, in part: pl. 2, figs 12-14.

New records.

Anton Bruun 7, 372-J and L, 25°07'S, 34°34'E, 105-112 m, 9 specimens, USNM 1279595 and 127 9596. Plio-Pleistocene, Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, 4 specimens, USNM 88445.

Distribution.

?Pliocene of Java ( Gerth 1921); Pliocene of Ryukyu Islands ( Yabe and Eguchi 1942b); Pliocene Taiwan ( Hu 1987, 1988); Pleistocene (Java) ( Umbgrove 1950); Holocene: South China Sea, Indonesia, off Mozambique, 30-274 m.

Remarks.

If Gerth’s (1921) forma alta is conspecific, it would have nomenclature priority as Truncatoflabellum altum .