Galaxea fam subsp. gen var. indet, . sp. 1

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

"fam. Fungiidae" gen. indet. sp. 1

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Fungiidae sp. 1; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Fungiidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Verrill, 1864 / Eschscholtz, 1825; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra W 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 36.6 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Gilberte Gendron , Nico Fassbender , Paris Stefanoudis , Rowana Walton ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Solitary, free-living. Forms elongated discs with an axial furrow that may extend to reach the colony edge. Septa are alternating and are non-continuous from the axial furrow to the sides. The maximum recorded size in this survey was 30 cm (length), although specimens can grow>1 m and also appear y- or x-shaped. Belongs to either Ctenactis or Herpolitha ; however, these two genera are not easy to distinguish from video footage alone, as that requires a close-up examination of individuals underwater. Corallite size 5.0 to 10.0 mm (Fig. 85).