Fungiacyathus (B.) pseudostephanus Keller, 1976

Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 1018 (1), pp. 15-46 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5049422

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D5E87EC-A312-0A00-9376-0240C78C0FA4

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scientific name

Fungiacyathus (B.) pseudostephanus Keller, 1976
status

 

Fungiacyathus (B.) pseudostephanus Keller, 1976 View in CoL

Figs. 1A—B View FIGURE 1

Fungiacyathus pseudostephana View in CoL (sic). Keller, 1976: 34–35, pl. 1, figs. 3–5, map.

Fungiacyathus pseudostephanus View in CoL . — Piñón, 1999: 19, 79 (listed).

New Record. — Vema 17­1, 7°10'S, 85°50'W, 4124 m, 26 Feb 1961, 1 corallum, USNM 80120 About USNM GoogleMaps .

Remarks. —The type locality of this species is several km west of Antofagasta, Chile (23°19'S, 70°57'W), but at a depth of 3840 m. It is also reputed to occur in the central Indian Ocean at depths of 3880–5120 m, making it one of the deepest living scleractinian corals known ( Keller 1976). The specimen reported herein is the second report of the species, collected from the abyssal plain off Chiclayo, Peru at 4124 m. It is 17.3 mm in CD and 8.3 mm in height, having highly ridged and serrate costae and a moderately conical base. The corallum has 48 septa, the S1 consisting of 4–5 tall axial lobes and an outer lobe consisting of 13–25 trabeculae. S2 consist of 7–8 axial lobes and an outer lobe consisting of 5–7 trabeculae.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Fungiacyathidae

Genus

Fungiacyathus

Loc

Fungiacyathus (B.) pseudostephanus Keller, 1976

Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter 2005
2005
Loc

Fungiacyathus pseudostephanus

Pinon, G. C. 1999: 19
1999
Loc

Fungiacyathus pseudostephana

Keller, N. B. 1976: 34
1976
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