Platytrochus compressus (Tenison-Woods, 1878)

Cairns, S. D., 2004, The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 56, pp. 259-329 : 299

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scientific name	Platytrochus compressus (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
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Platytrochus compressus (Tenison-Woods, 1878) View in CoL

Conocyathus compressus Tenison-Woods, 1878b: 302–303 View in CoL (in part: lectotype, pl. 5, figs. 1a,b) (NSW).– Squires, 1961: 18 (listed).

Not Platytrochus compressus View in CoL .– Dennant, 1904: 4–5 (= P. laevigatus View in CoL ).– Howchin, 1909: 245 (= P. laevigatus View in CoL ).– Eguchi, 1973: 85 (= P. laevigatus View in CoL ).– Shepherd & Veron, 1982: 178, fig. 4.54d.

Platytrochus compressus View in CoL .– Howchin, 1909: 245 (listed, in part: specimens from type locality).– Wells, 1958: 262 (listed).– Squires, 1961: 18 (listed).– Wells, 1964: 109 (listed).– Veron, 1986: 608 (listed).–Cairns & Parker, 1992: 36 (lectotype designation, remarks, NSW).–Cairns, 1997: 29 (listed).

New records. None.

Types. The lectotype, designated by Cairns & Parker (1992), is deposited at the Macleay Museum; the paralectotype, which is Foveolocyathus verconis , is AM G7024 . Type Locality: off Port Stephens , 130 m.

References

Dennant, J., 1904. Recent corals from the South Australian and Victorian coasts. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 1 - 11, 2 pls.

Eguchi, M., 1973. On some new or little known corals from Japan and Australia. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto (Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Cnidaria) 20: 81 - 86, 1 pl.

Howchin, W., 1909. Notes on the discovery of a large mass of living coral in Gulf St. Vincent, with bibliographical references to the Recent corals of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 242 - 252.

Shepherd, S. A., & J. E. N. Veron, 1982. Stony corals (Order Scleractinia or Madreporaria). In Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part 1, ed. S. A. Shepherd & I. M. Thomas, pp. 169 - 178, figs. 4.41 - 4.55. Adelaide: Govt. Printer.

Squires, D. F., 1961. Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 2. Scotia Sea corals. American Museum Novitates 2046: 48 pp., including 31 figs.

Tenison-Woods, J. E., 1878 b. On the extratropical corals of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 292 - 341, pls. 4 - 6.

Veron, J. E. N., 1986. Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Pp. xii + 644, many unnumbered figs. North Ryde [Sydney]: Angus & Robertson.

Wells, J. W., 1958. Scleractinian Corals. B. A. N. Z. A. R. E. Reports (Series B) 6 (11): 257 - 275, 2 pls.

Wells, J. W., 1964. Ahermatypic corals from Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Zoology 2 (6): 107 - 121, 3 pls.