Lithophyllon spinifer ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987 )

Lane, David J. W. & Hoeksema, Bert W., 2016, Mesophotic mushroom coral records at Brunei Darussalam support westward extension of the Coral Triangle to the South China Sea waters of Northwest Borneo, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64, pp. 204-212 : 207

Lithophyllon spinifer ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987)

( Figs. 3E, F )

Fungia (Verrilofungia) spinifer Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987 : Figs. 190–201; Hoeksema, 1989: 79–83, Figs. 186–202; Hoeksema, 1993a: 6, 17, Fig. 14. Hoeksema & van Ofwegen, 2004: [9 Figs.]

Cycloseris colini Veron, 2000: 247 , Figs. 4, 5; Veron, 2002: 99–101, Figs. 185–188.

Fungia spinifer – Hoeksema, 2008: Fig. 9.

Lithophyllon spinifer – Gittenberger et al., 2011: Table 7; Hoeksema, 2012c: Fig.8; Hoeksema & Waheed, 2012a: Table 1.

Material examined. one specimen, ( RMNH Coel.42103) collected by DJWL 8 November 2014 at 32 m depth, South China Sea , Mampak patches, North Patch : N05°02.305’ E114°26.449’. Habitat : reef top, silty sand and rock amongst gorgonian fan corals and whip corals. Monostomatous and free-living. Corallum almost circular, concave, with a raised septal mound around the central fossa. Maximum diameter 97mm .

Louisa Reef. During the brief offshore SCUBA diving visit to Louisa Reef at the southwest edge of the Spratly islands (3 rd – 4 th September 2014), the following additional location records for fungiids were made. All of these species also occur on Brunei’s continental shelf reefs ( Hoeksema & Lane, 2014). Confirmation of identifications was by the 2 nd author, based on specimens and/or in situ photographs. Where specimens were collected, these are deposited in the UBD Reference Collection under the following catalogue numbers: Ctenactis albitentaculata (image only); C. crassa ( UBDM.6.201409.1); Cycloseris tenuis ( UBDM.6.201409.2); Danafungia horrida ( UBDM.6.201409.3); D. scruposa ( UBDM.6.201409.4); Herpolitha limax (image only); Lobactis scutaria ( UBDM.6.201409.5); Pleuractis gravis ( UBDM.6.201409.6).

Figures

Fig. 3. A–D, Cycloseris hexagonalis [RMNH Coel.42102]; A, RMNH Coel.42102b photographed in situ, oral view; B, bleached skeleton, same specimen, oral view; C, underside of the same specimen, biofouled with serpulid polychaetes. D, RMNH Coel. 42102a. Corallum undulations are extreme and for two of them (upper and lower in the image) the undersurfaces of the corallum folds are fused. E, F, Lithophyllon spinifer [RMNH Coel.42103]. E, photographed in situ, oral view; F, bleached, oral view. Scale bars = 1cm.