Truncatoflabellum macroeschara Cairns, 1998

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 : 11

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum macroeschara Cairns, 1998 Fig. 4A

Truncatoflabellum macroeschara Cairns, 1998: 401, Table 4, figs 8 d–e, g– 1; 2004: 309 (synonymy).-Kitahara et al. 2010: fig. 1.

Distribution.

Off Western Australia and Queensland, 18-201 m.

Remarks.

Truncatoflabellum macroeschara belongs to a group of three western Australian species that have very large coralla, often including some S7, the other two species being Truncatoflabellum veroni and Truncatoflabellum angiostomum . It differs from those two species as well as all others in the genus by having a very large scar diameter.