Culicia sp. cf. Culicia tenella Culicia natalensis (Duncan, 1876)

Filander, Zoleka N., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Cairns, Stephen D., Sink, Kerry J. & Lombard, Amanda T., 2021, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa, ZooKeys 1066, pp. 1-198 : 1

Culicia sp. cf. Culicia tenella Culicia natalensis (Duncan, 1876)

Cylicia tenella . - Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857: 608.

Cylicia tenella var. natalensis Duncan, 1876: 439-440, pl. 40, fig. 3.

Culicia tenella . - Gardiner and Waugh 1939: 230.

Culicia sp. cf. C. natalensis . - Cairns and Keller 1993: 232-232, fig. 3G.

Culicia tenella natalensis . -Cairns 2004a: 274.

Type locality.

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (Cairns 2004a).

Type material.

The holotype is deposited at the NHMUK (Cairns 2004a).

Material examined.

None.

Distribution.

Regional: Eastern margin of South Africa, off KwaZulu-Natal; depth unknown ( Duncan 1876). Elsewhere: Tanzania (Gardiner and Waugh 1938); Kenya ( Cairns and Keller 1993); 34 m.

Remarks.

This entry is based on Duncan’s (1876) subspecies Culicia tenella natalensis . In his account, Duncan (1876) highlighted the association between C. natalensis and a brachiopod. Although we herein doubt the validity of Duncan’s South African subspecies, more specimens are required in order to compare C. natalensis to the Australian C. tenella and C. hoffmeisteri Squires, 1966. The latter is an Australian species that Cairns and Keller (1993) reported to have a close resemblance to their C. natalensis examined specimens from Kenya.