Foveolocyathus verconis ( Dennant, 1904 )

Cairns, S. D., 2004, The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia, Records of the Australian Museum 56, pp. 259-329 : 294

publication ID

2201-4349

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5240254

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/903C8031-874D-5962-FF30-BBBEFC67FBBF

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Foveolocyathus verconis ( Dennant, 1904 )
status

 

Foveolocyathus verconis ( Dennant, 1904) View in CoL

Conocyathus compressus Tenison-Woods, 1878b: 302–303 View in CoL (in part: paralectotype), NSW.

Trematotrochus verconis Dennant, 1904: 5–6 View in CoL (pl. 1, fig. 4), SA.– Howchin, 1909: 45 (listed).– Wells, 1958: 262 (listed). Squires, 1961: 19 (listed).– Shepherd & Veron, 1982: 176, figs. 4.54b (listed).– Veron, 1986: 607 (listed).– Stranks, 1993: 21 (type designation).– Not Cairns, 1988: 388 (= F. parkeri View in CoL ).– Not Cairns, 1997: 26–27, pls. 3e, 6b, 9f (= F. parkeri View in CoL ).

Trematotrochus alternans Cairns & Parker, 1992: 31–32 View in CoL , figs. 8f–h, 9b,c (SA, Vic, NSW, WA).– Stranks, 1993: page 1 of addendum (type deposition).– Cairns, 1998: 364 (listed).

Foveolocyathus alternans View in CoL .–Cairns, 1997: 27, pl. 6c (new combination).

New records. TASMANIA: Tangaroa 81-T-1-162, 1, NMV F67803 View Materials ; Tangaroa 81-T-1-194, 1, NMV F67822 View Materials ; 81-T-1-201, 2, USNM 92995 . — NEW SOUTH WALES: Thetis 49, 2, AM G11963 . — QUEENSLAND: Gillett Cay, Swain Reef , 64–73 m (station VI), 1, AM G15381 .

Types. Dennant (1904: 6) described the species based on “the type” (= holotype) and an unspecified number of worn specimens from St. Vincent Gulf and Backstairs Passage. The holotype was stated to measure 6× 3 mm in CD and 7.3 mm in height. Not able to find type material of Trematotrochus verconis Dennant, 1904 , Cairns & Parker (1992) established a neotype (SAM H542) from the Verco collection that was collected close to the type locality. From Dennant’s figures, they inferred that Dennant included two species in his description: a species having 40 septa and 4 size classes of septa, which Cairns & Parker considered to be typical T. verconis , and a species with a more elongate corallum and more septa, and only 3 size classes of septa, which they named T. alternans n.sp. But, a year later, Stranks (1993) discovered 17 of the purported types of T. verconis at the NMV ( F43270 View Materials ). Ironically, all of these type specimens, including one that corresponds to the exact measurement of the holotype (recently recatalogued as F96127 View Materials ), correspond to the species Cairns & Parker described as T. alternans . According to the ICZN (1999: article 75.8), a neotype must be set aside if the original type material is discovered, so F. verconis is the name that must apply to the species having the more elongate calice and higher number of septa arranged in three size classes ( F. alternans sensu Cairns & Parker, 1992 ). Thus, a new name must be provided for the species referred to as F. verconis by Cairns & Parker (1992), i.e., F. parkeri .

The holotype of F. alternans is deposited at the SAM ( H547 ) ; paratypes are also deposited at the SAM, NNM, NMV, and USNM. Type Locality: St. Francis Island , South Australia, 27–37 m.

NMV

Museum Victoria

AM

Australian Museum

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

SAM

South African Museum

NNM

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Turbinoliidae

Genus

Foveolocyathus

Loc

Foveolocyathus verconis ( Dennant, 1904 )

Cairns, S. D. 2004
2004
Loc

Trematotrochus verconis

Stranks, T 1993: 21
Cairns, S 1988: 388
Veron, J 1986: 607
Shepherd, S 1982: 176
Squires, D 1961: 19
Wells, J 1958: 262
Howchin, W 1909: 45
Dennant, J 1904: 6
1904
Loc

Conocyathus compressus

Tenison-Woods, J 1878: 303
1878
Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF