Inferiolabiata Broch, 1951

Pica, Daniela, Cairns, Stephen D., Puce, Stefania & Newman, William A., 2015, Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species, Errinalabrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Scalpellidae), ZooKeys 472, pp. 1-25 : 3

Taxon classification Animalia Anthoathecata Stylasteridae

Genus Inferiolabiata Broch, 1951

Diagnosis.

Colonies commonly associated with a commensal polychaete. Gastropores and dactylopores randomly distributed. Coenosteal texture linear- or reticulate-imbricate. Gastrostyles are present but a ring palisade is usually absent. Tabulae often present. Dactylopore spines with a primarily abcauline dactylotome. Dactylostyles present. Ampullae superficial.

Discussion.

The genus Inferiolabiata includes four species ( Cairns and Zibrowius 2013). The present material represents part of the first record of identified stylasterid corals from the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago.

Type species.

Errina labiata Moseley, 1879.

Depth range.

80-2100 m.

Distribution.

Tristan da Cunha Archipelago, South Africa, Antarctica and Sub-Antarctic area, New Zealand.