Lochmaeotrochus oculeus Alcock, 1902

Cairns, S. D., 2004, The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 56, pp. 259-329 : 282

publication ID	2201-4349
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5240180
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scientific name	Lochmaeotrochus oculeus Alcock, 1902
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Lochmaeotrochus oculeus Alcock, 1902 View in CoL

Lochmaeotrochus oculeus Alcock, 1902b: 117–118 View in CoL ; 1902c: 13, pl. 2, figs. 9, 9a.–Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997: 128–129, figs. 16f–i (description).

New records. WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Bhagwan 6, 5 quasicolonies: 2, USNM 1009431, 3, WAM Z13081 View Materials ; Lady Basten 1031303, 1 pseudocolony of 13 coralla, WAM Z16028 View Materials .

Types. Syntypes are ZMA Coel. 814 and 700. Type Locality: Indonesia, 411–487 m.

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Australia and only the second report subsequent to its original description. Although there is little doubt that it is the same species, these specimens differ from those previously reported by having uniformly smaller “corallites”, averaging 5 mm in CD and with a maximum of 5.8 mm, whereas the type corallites average 6–7 mm in CD and those reported by Cairns & Zibrowius (1997) average 8 mm in CD with a maximum of 11 mm.