Truncatoflabellum phoenix Cairns, 1995

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 : 9

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum phoenix Cairns, 1995 Fig. 2A

Truncatoflabellum sp. B. Cairns, 1994: 75, 79, pl. 33i, l.

Truncatoflabellum phoenix Cairns, 1995: 115-116, pl. 37i, 38a-f.- Cairns and Zibrowius 1997: 171.- Cairns 1999: 121.-Ogawa 2006: 16, pl. 2, fig. 5a-b.

New records.

USGS 25734, Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo Island, Late Pleistocene, 1 specimen, USNM 100175; Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, Horseshoe Cliffs, 1 km NNW Onna Village (26°30'N, 127°50'54"E), 67-79 m, 6 specimens, USNM 87712, 88380, 88382, 88383, and 100674.

Distribution.

Late Pleistocene: Vanuatu. Holocene: southern Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands, 18-441 m.

Remarks.

This is the smallest of the Truncatoflabellum species, having a GCD rarely more than 5 mm, but capable of multiple apical regeneration (Fig. 2A, top) resulting in coralla as long as 17.5 mm.