Cycloseris sinensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851

Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 566-580 : 569

Cycloseris sinensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851

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Cycloseris sinensis – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 145.

Diaseris distorta (partim) – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 130.

This free-living species is common at Brunei: recorded at 6 out of 17 sites ( Table 2). It was observed in complete and in fragmenting shape, the so-called Diaseris form (see Hoeksema, 1989: Figs. 48–54). A fragmented specimen identified as Diaseris distorta and shown in a black and white photograph by Turak & DeVantier (2011) is actually a specimen of C. sinensis .

Figures

Fig. 3. A, B, Cycloseris fragilis, complete coral at Hornet Reef (Brunei Patches), fragmenting coral at Abana Rock, north; C, Cycloseris sinensis, fragmenting coral at Abana Rock, north; D–F, Cycloseris cyclolites at Hornet Reef (Brunei Patches), complete coral, fragmenting coral upper and lower side; G, H, Cycloseris somervillei at Chearnley Shoal, upper and lower side of a coral; I, Cycloseris costulata at Pelong Rocks, northeast; J, Cycloseris tenuis at Hornet Reef (Brunei Patches); K, Cycloseris vaughani at Colombo Reef (Champion Shoal).