Truncatoflabellum corbicula (Tenison-Woods, 1880)

Cairns, Stephen D., 2016, A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species, ZooKeys 562, pp. 1-48 : 20-21

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum corbicula (Tenison-Woods, 1880) Fig. 9C

Flabellum corbicula Tenison-Woods, 1880: 13, figs 10 a–b.- Squires 1958: 66 (lectotype designated).

Truncatoflabellum corbicula : Cairns 1989b: 61.

New record.

NZGS 1341, Wharekuri Greensand, Wharekuri, Waitaki Valley, New Zealand, S117/492, Duntroonian (Lower Oligocene), 1 specimen, USNM 67939.

Distribution.

Port Hills, Nelson, and Waitaki Valley, New Zealand (Duntroonian =Lower Oligocene).

Remarks.

The name corbicula , Latin for small basket, is treated as a noun in apposition and thus does not match gender with the genus.