Cycloseris wellsi ( Veron & Pichon, 1980 )

Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 566-580 : 570

Cycloseris wellsi ( Veron & Pichon, 1980)

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Coscinarea wellsi – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 110.

This encrusting species is rare at Brunei ( Turak & DeVantier, 2011). Previously it was considered to belong to the Siderastreidae but based on morphological and molecular evidence ( Benzoni et al., 2007) this species was moved to the Fungiidae ( Benzoni et al., 2012) . Although this species was noted in the field, sites for this taxon were not recorded in the presence/absence survey.

Figures

Fig. 4. A, Cycloseris explanulata at Porter Patch; B, Cycloseris wellsi at Abana Rock, north; C, Cycloseris mokai at Littledale Shoal, south; D, Lithophyllon scabra at Hornet Reef (Brunei Patches); E, Lithophyllon concinna at Abana Rock, south; F, Lithophyllon repanda at Abana Rock, north; G, Lithophyllon undulatum at Abana Rock, south; H, Halomitra pileus at Abana Rock, south; I, Danafungia horrida at Pelong Rocks, northeast; J, Danafungia scruposa at Pelong Rocks, southwest; K, Fungia fungites at Abana Rock, south.