Truncatoflabellum vanuatu (Wells, 1984)

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 : 18

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum vanuatu (Wells, 1984) Fig. 8B

Flabellum vanuatu Wells, 1984: 215, figs 4 (11-12), 5 (1).

Truncatoflabellum vanuatu : Cairns 1989b, Table 6, 69, pl. 36c; 1999: 123.

Truncatoflabellum sp. A: Kitahara et al. 2010: fig. 1.

Truncatoflabellum sp. B: Kitahara et al. 2010: fig. 1.

New records.

Kere River, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, Late Pleistocene, USGS 25715, 25717, and 27718, 35 specimens, USNM 100195, 99485, and 73972, respectively.

Distribution.

Late Pleistocene: Vanuatu. Holocene: Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, 240-335 m.