Zoopilus echinatus Dana, 1846

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 : 576

Zoopilus echinatus Dana, 1846

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Zoopilus echinatus – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 144.

This free-living species is rare at Brunei ( Turak & DeVantier, 2011). It was not recorded during our survey ( Table 2), but the photograph taken at Silk Rock ( Turak & DeVantier, 2011) and a specimen fragment in the collection of the Brunei Fisheries Department ( Fig. 7A, B ) leave no doubt about the occurrence of this species at Brunei, which underlines the importance of museum specimens as reference material in biodiversity studies (Hoeksema et al., 2011).

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Fig. 7. Zoopilus echinatus. A fragment with regenerated margins from Silk Rock, 10 m depth, 21 October 2008, Coll. L. Devantier. A, upper surface; B, lower surface. Scale bar = 0.5 cm.