Conocyathus zelandiae Duncan, 1876

Cairns, S. D., 2004, The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 56, pp. 259-329 : 292

Conocyathus zelandiae Duncan, 1876

Conocyathus zelandiae Duncan, 1876: 431 , pl. 38, figs. 1–3.– Tenison-Woods, 1878b: 294, 295 (remarks).– Wells, 1958: 262 (listed); Squires, 1961: 18 (listed).– Wells, 1964: 113–114 (in part: all but Western Australian specimens, Qld, NSW).– Veron, 1986: 607 (listed).– Filkorn, 1994: 16 (remarks).– Cairns, 1995: 83–84 (in part: not USNM 80851, 80852, WA, NSW, NZ, synonymy, description).–Not Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997: 140– 141 (= C. gracilis ).–Cairns, 1997: 23 (listed); 1998: 388, figs. 5d–h (WA).

Conocyathus sulcatus .– Tenison-Woods, 1878b: 302 (NSW).– Squires, 1961: 18 (listed).

Conocyathus scrobiculatus Dennant, 1902b: 260–261 , pl. 6, figs. 1a,b (Eocene of Vic).

Not Trematotrochus zelandiae .– Folkeson, 1919: 14 (= C. gracilis ).

Turbinolia australiensis Gardiner, 1939: 332–333 , pl. 21, figs. 1–2 (NSW).

New records. NEW SOUTH WALES: 33°50.6'S 151°16.6'E (Green Point, Watson’s Bay, Port Jackson ), 9–15 m, June 1865, 2, AM G16618 ; 33°50.8'S 151°16.7'E (Watson’s Bay, Port Jackson ), 50, AM G7023 ; 33°51'S 151°16'E ( Port Jackson ), depth and date unknown, 3, AM G381 and G7956; Green Point, Port Jackson , 1 specimen identified as Turbinolia costata, BM .

Types. Two syntypes of C. zelandiae are BM 1890.2.27.2– 3. Type Locality: Cook Strait , New Zealand (but see Cairns, 1995), depth unknown .

The holotype of C. scrobiculatus is NMV P27097. Type Locality: Eocene of Spring Creek, near Geelong , Victoria .

The holotype of T. australiensis is presumed to be at BM, but has not been examined. Type Locality: Port Jackson , NSW, depth unknown .