Cycloseris hexagonalis ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 )

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 : 577

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5354576
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5451467
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B8292168-C57A-FC69-FF58-26848CDFFB1C
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Cycloseris hexagonalis ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 )
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Cycloseris hexagonalis ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) View in CoL

Cycloseris hexagonalis View in CoL – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 127.

One colour photograph of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) was taken in the Philippines; the origin of the other one is not mentioned. The identity and origin of a third coral (diameter 6 cm) showing the aboral side in a black and white photograph is unclear. This specimen shows prominent lower order costae, while C. hexagonalis View in CoL of that size usually shows a nearly smooth aboral side with costae that are almost invariable in size (Hoeksema, 1989). Because Turak & DeVantier (2011) state that C. hexagonalis View in CoL may resemble C. tenuis View in CoL , which has very coarsely ornamented lower order costae, the occurrence of C. hexagonalis View in CoL at Brunei remains uncertain.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Scleractinia
Family	Fungiidae
Genus	Cycloseris