Truncatoflabellum crassum (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

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 : 13

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum crassum (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Fig. 5C

Flabellum crassum Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 276-277, pl. 8, figs 8, 8a.

Flabellum stokesi : Scheer and Pillai 1974: 62-63, pl. 29, figs 1-2.

Truncatoflabellum crassum : Cairns 1989b: 64-65, Table 6, pl. 32 d–f (synonymy).

New records.

Albatross 5091, 35°04'10"N, 139°38'12"E, 366 m, 1 specimen, USNM 92812; Albatross 5270, 13°35'45"N, 120°58'30"E, 430 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1130686; Anton Bruun 1-38, 14°07'N, 95°05'E, 69-73 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1015342; Anton Bruun 260A, 26°15'N, 56°46'E, 91 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1015348; Anton Bruun 9-447, 10°00'N, 51°15'E, 59-61 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1015346; Anton Bruun 9-451, 11°04'N, 51°15'E, 76-80 m, 14 specimens, USNM 98977; Anton Bruun 9-453, 11°11'N, 51°14'E, 47-49 m, approx.. 200 specimens, USNM 77040; Anton Bruun 9-456, 11°14'N, 51°08'E, 27-31 m, 1 specimen, USNM 1015285; 11°15'N, 51°12'E, 50 m, 10 specimens, USNM 1015170.

Distribution.

Philippines, Sagami Bay (Japan), Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Great Nicobar, Andaman Islands, 31-430 m.