Truncatoflabellum truncum

• Main Authors: Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Flabellidae; Truncatoflabellum; Truncatoflabellum truncum; Antarctic; Baja; Pacific; Keller; Falkland Plateau; Desolación; Isla Desolación; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5049437; https://zenodo.org/record/5049437

Truncatoflabellum truncum (Cairns, 1982) Flabellum truncum Cairns, 1982: 46, pl. 14, figs. 5–8. — Piñón, 1999: 21, 82 (listed). Truncatoflabellum truncum . — Cairns, Hoeksema & van der Land, 1999: 32 (listed). Remarks . —This species has been reported only by Cairns (1982) from the continental slope off Isla Desolación (type locality) and off Taltal, Chile (25°– 53°S, 950–1896 m), as well as off Peru (8°S) and the Falkland Plateau (as shallow as 595 m). It is easily recognized by having a basal scar from which it asexually detaches from an attached anthocaulus. Cairns (1989: Table 6) implied that T. truncum was a junior synonym of T. trapezoideum Keller, 1981, the latter known only from the Marcus Necker Ridge at 1630 m, but Cairns et al. (1999) listed them as separate species. Both species are poorly known and should be closely compared when more specimens are available. : Published as part of Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, pp. 15-46 in Zootaxa 1018 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5049374 : {"references": ["Cairns, S. D. (1982) Antarctic and Subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series, 34 (1), 74 pp., 18 pls., 14 maps.", "Pinon, G. C. (1999) Biogeografia de los corales ahermatipicos (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) en el Pacifico oriental. Thesis, Universidad Antonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, 84 pp.", "Cairns, S. D., Hoeksema, B. W. & van der Land, J. (1999) Appendix, List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin 459, 13 - 46.", "Cairns, S. D. (1989) A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters. Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 486, 136 pp., 42 pls.", "Keller, N. B. (1981) The solitary madreporarian corals. In: Kuznetsov, A. P. & Mironov, A. N. (Ed) Benthos of the Submarine Mountains Marcus-Necker and adjacent Pacific Regions, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, pp. 28 - 39, 2 pls."]}