Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Yabe H, Eguchi M. (1932). A study of the recent deep-water coral fauna of Japan. <em>Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Japan.</em> 8: 387-390. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source
Squires DF. (1961). Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 2. Scotia Sea corals. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2046: 1-48. page(s): 20 [details]
additional source
Squires DF, Keyes IW. (1967). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinian corals. <em>New Zealand Department of Scientiic and Industrial Research Bulletin.</em> 185: 1-46, pls. 1-6. [details]
additional source
Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. <em>Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban.</em> 49: 1-45. page(s): 36-37 [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Corallum colonial, bushy, formed by extracalicular budding, usually at right angle to parent corallite; corallites also bonded by slender hollow tubular coenosteal bridges; pail and columella absent; tabular endothecal dissepiments common and widely spaced. [details]
Remark Monotypic. This genus is one of the major framework forming deep-water corals in the New Zealand region. [details]From other sources
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 88-1488 m [details]
Fossil range Pleistocene to Recent [details]
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