Truncatoflabellum stabile (Marenzeller, 1904)

Cairns, Stephen D., 2016, A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species, ZooKeys 562, pp. 1-48 : 19-20

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum stabile (Marenzeller, 1904) Fig. 9B

Flabellum stabile Marenzeller, 1904: 273-274, pl. 17, figs 12 a–b.- Zibrowius 1980: 150 (types lost).

Truncatoflabellum stabile : Cairns 1989b: 61.- Zibrowius and Gili 1990: 39.- Cairns 1999: 119, figs 19i-j (synonymy).

Truncatoflabellum sp. cf. Truncatoflabellum stabile : Cairns and Keller 1993: 264-265, figs 10C, F.

Truncatoflabellum sp. A Cairns, 1994: 75, 79, pl. 34 c–e.

Distribution.

Ryukyu Islands, Vanuatu, off Mozambique, Cape Verde, Madeira, 786-3010 m.

Remarks.

This is the deepest living Truncatoflabellum as well as the most geographically widespread.