Caryophyllia crypta Cairns, 2000

Reyes, Javier, Santodomingo, Nadiezhda & Cairns, Stephen, 2009, Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean, Zootaxa 2262 (1), pp. 1-39 : 6

Caryophyllia crypta Cairns, 2000

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Caryophyllia sp. cf. C. antillarum: Goreau & Wells, 1967: 449 (listed).— Wells & Lang, 1973:58 (listed).—Wells, 1973: 60. [Not C. antillarum Pourtalès, 1874 ].

Caryophyllia smithi Zlatarski & Martínez, 1982: 258–259 (in part: pl. 111, figs. 1–6, text-figs. 60–61).

Caryophyllia sp. Fenner, 1993a: 14 (listed).

Caryophyllia crypta Cairns, 2000: 64–66 , figs 16, 66–88 (description and synonymy).— Kitahara, 2007: 507, fig. 2I.

Remarks: C. crypta was described based on specimens collected off the northern Caribbean of Colombia (Santa Marta). Four paratype specimens are deposited at the NMNH with catalog number USNM 99187. Colombian specimens exhibit the typical light brown theca and white axial portion of the septa, pali and columella. They are attached to a carbonate substrate, and some corallites are covered by encrusting bryozoans.

Distribution: Bahamas, Caribbean, Brazil, rare in Windward Islands, between 12 and 183 m depth ( Cairns 2000). In Colombia, C. crypta is only known from Santa Marta at 17 m depth.

Figures

FIGURE 2. A–B, Caryophyllia berteriana, INV CNI2553, off San Bernardo Islands, calicular and lateral views, both x 1.5; C, Caryophyllia crypta, USNM 99187, Santa Marta, paratype, x 4; D–E, Caryophyllia barbadensis, INV CNI669, off San Bernardo Islands, calicular and lateral views, both x 10; F–G, Caryophyllia ambrosia caribbeana, INV CNI364, off La Rada inlet, calicular and lateral views, both x 1.6; H–I, Coenocyathus parvulus, INV CNI671, off San Bernardo Islands, calicular and lateral views, both x 10; J–K, Trochocyathus rawsonii, INV CNI681, off Gulf of Morrosquillo, calicular and lateral views, both x 3.2; L–M, Trochocyathus sp. cf. T. fasciatus, INV CNI379, off Santa Marta, calicular and lateral views, both x 4.6; N, Tethocyathus prahli, INV CNI905, off La Guajira (Punta Gallinas), calicular view x 2.7; O, T. prahli, INV CNI1514, off Chocó, Pacific Ocean, calicular view x 2.7; P–Q, Tethocyathus variabilis, INV CNI2404, off San Bernardo Islands, calicular and lateral views, both x 4; R–S, Paracyathus pulchellus, INV CNI2305, off La Guajira, calicular and lateral views, both x 4.4; T–U, Polycyathus senegalensis, INV CNI809, off La Guajira, calicular view and colony, both x 2.7; V, Cladocora debilis, INV CNI877, off Palomino, colony fragment showing typical branching pattern, x 0.8. Scale bars for A–B, F–G,V = 1 cm;C, J–U = 5 mm; D–E, H–I = 1 mm.