Truncatoflabellum spheniscus (Dana, 1846)

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 : 17

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.562.7310

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scientific name

Truncatoflabellum spheniscus (Dana, 1846)
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Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum spheniscus (Dana, 1846) View in CoL Fig. 7D

Euphyllia spheniscus Dana, 1846: 160-161, pl. 6, figs 1 a–e.

Flabellum sumatrense Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 271.

Flabellum debile Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 274, pl. 8, fig. 2.

Flabellum affine Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 274, pl. 8, fig. 10.

Flabellum bairdi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 274-275.

Flabellum profundum Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 276.

Flabellum elongatum Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 275, pl. 8, fig. 7.

Flabellum crenulatum Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 277.

Flabellum variabile : Gerth, 1921: 401, pl. 57, fig. 30.- Cairns 1989b: Table 6, pl. 33, pl. 33a.

Flabellum rubrum debile: Yabe & Eguchi, 1941: 269, figs 5-6.

Truncatoflabellum bairdi : Cairns 1989b: 66-67, Table 6, pl. 33k, 34 a–c.

Truncatoflabellum profundum : Cairns 1989b: 67, Table 6, pl. 34 d–h.

Truncatoflabellum spheniscus : Cairns 1989b: 65-66, pl. 32g-k (synonymy); 1994: 76, pl. 33 a–d (synonymy); 1999: 399, Table 4; 2004: 309.

New records.

Albatross 5483, 10°27'30"N, 125°19'15"E, 135 m, 4 specimens, USNM 1130688; Albatross 5593, 4°02'20"N, 118°11'20"E, 69 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1130687.

Distribution.

Pliocene: Java ( Gerth 1921; Yabe and Eguchi 1941). Holocene: Japan, Indonesia, circum-Australia, 2-174 m.

Remarks.

The name spheniscus , Latin for small wedge, is treated as a noun in apposition and thus does not match gender with the genus.