Notophyllia recta Dennant 1906

• Main Author: Cairns, S. D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Dendrophylliidae; Notophyllia; Notophyllia recta; Scotia Sea; Pacific; New Zealand; Queensland; Recta; Fossa; Port Stephens
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5240481; https://zenodo.org/record/5240481

Notophyllia recta Dennant, 1906 Sphenotrochus variolaris Tenison-Woods, 1879a: 189–190 (in part: 34 of the 49 Recent specimens from Port Stephens, NSW ); 1878b: 307 (in part, NSW ).– Wells, 1958: 262 (in part, listed ).– Squires, 1961: 19 (in part, listed ). Notophyllia recta Dennant, 1906: 163 (in part: pl. 5, figs. 4a,b, not specimens from Cape Jaffa; NSW ).– Howchin, 1909: 248 (in part: not specimens from Cape Jaffa).– Boschma, 1952: 239– 245 (in part: pl. 1, figs. 4–8, 13, 17, 21–26, NSW ).– Wells, 1958: 262 ( listed ).– Boschma, 1959: 1 ( Remarks ).– Wells, 1964: 109 ( listed ).– Veron, 1986: 610 ( listed ).–Cairns & Parker, 1992: 51–52, figs. 17h, 18a,d ( WA, SA, NSW ).– Stranks, 1993: 21 ( type deposition ).– Cairns, 1998: 365, 406 ( Remarks ). Notophyllia variolaris .– Wells, 1964: 109 (in part, listed ).– Veron, 1986: 610 (in part, listed ). New records . VICTORIA: Tangaroa 81-T-1-Q634, 1, NMV F67810; Tangaroa 81-T-1-170, 1, NMV F67814. — NEW SOUTH WALES: Thetis 49, 56, AM G11950 and G14470; off Cronulla, depth unknown, 6 November 1963, 3, AM G15331; Kapala 78/27/01, 15, AM G15294; east of Sydney, depth unknown, 2, AM G15319; Reef Benthic Survey 5, 33: 5, USNM 1009242, 28, AM G16741. Types . Three syntypes are NMV F41518 (Stranks, 1993). Type Locality: 20 miles (= 32 km) northeast of Port Jackson, NSW, 457 m. Remarks . Adult specimens of N. etheridgi and N. recta are fairly easy to distinguish (Cairns & Parker, 1992), but juvenile specimens of N. etheridgi of 5.5 mm or less GCD are very similar to adult coralla of N. recta of similar size, both having the same number of septa and a similarly shaped corallum. The only character distinguishing them at this size is that the ten secondary septa of N. etheridgi are much smaller (less than half the width) than the 10 primaries, their axial edges fusing with the columella quite low in the fossa, whereas the secondary septa of N. recta are almost the same width as the primaries, fusing to the columella high in the fossa, almost at the level of the primary fusion. : Published as part of Cairns, S. D., 2004, The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia, pp. 259-329 in Records of the Australian Museum 56 on page 318 : {"references": ["Dennant, J., 1906. Madreporaria from the Australian and New Zealand coasts. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 151 - 165, pls. 5 - 6.", "Tenison-Woods, J. E., 1879 a. On a new species of Psammoseris. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 8 - 11, 1 pl.", "Wells, J. W., 1958. Scleractinian Corals. B. A. N. Z. A. R. E. Reports (Series B) 6 (11): 257 - 275, 2 pls.", "Squires, D. F., 1961. Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 2. Scotia Sea corals. American Museum Novitates 2046: 48 pp., including 31 figs.", "Howchin, W., 1909. Notes on the discovery of a large mass of living coral in Gulf St. Vincent, with bibliographical references to the Recent corals of South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 242 - 252.", "Boschma, H., 1952. Madreporarian corals of the genus Notophyllia. Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlanse Akademie van Wetenschappen (C) 55 (3): 238 - 247, 1 pls., 3 figs.", "Boschma, H., 1959. The species problem in corals. Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology Section 3 (41): 1 - 2.", "Wells, J. W., 1964. Ahermatypic corals from Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Zoology 2 (6): 107 - 121, 3 pls.", "Veron, J. E. N., 1986. Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Pp. xii + 644, many unnumbered figs. North Ryde [Sydney]: Angus & Robertson.", "Stranks, T. N., 1993. Catalogue of Recent Cnidaria type specimens in the Museum of Victoria. Occasional Papers from the Museum of Victoria 6, pp. 26 + 2 - page addendum.", "Cairns, S. D., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361 - 417, 9 pls."]}