Lithophyllon ranjithi Ditlev, 2003

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

Lithophyllon ranjithi Ditlev, 2003

Lithophyllon lobata – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 145.

One colour photograph of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) was taken in Indonesia; the origin of other photographs is unclear. They present this species as L. lobata , a junior synonym of L. undulatum (see Hoeksema, 1989). The syntypes of L. lobata are large, thin, twirled foliaceous corals with thin septa and mouths scattered over the whole upper surface, whereas specimens of L. ranjithi are thick laminar corals in one plane with folded margins, thick septa, and mouths concentrated at the centre of the upper surface. L. ranjithi is known from East Sabah and East Kalimantan ( Ditlev, 2003; Hoeksema et al., 2004; Waheed & Hoeksema, 2013), and it has also been observed in the Kudat region at north Sabah and at Layang-Layang atoll in the South China Sea (Waheed & Hoeksema, in prep.). It was not found at the reefs of Kota Kinabalu ( Waheed & Hoeksema, 2014), which are only about 150 km away from Brunei in a NE direction.