Cantharellus Hoeksema & Best, 1984

Licuanan, Wilfredo Y. & Capili, Emmi B., 2004, New Records Of Stony Corals From The Philippines Previously Known From Peripheral Areas Of The Indo-Pacific, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 285-288 : 285

Cantharellus Hoeksema & Best

Remarks. – Unlike most other fungiid corals, members of the genus Cantharellus are solitary, cup-shaped and attached to the substrate. The polyps consist of a single to numerous centres with septo-costae having fine granulations. Cantharellus can be found in the Indo-West Pacific, western and eastern Australia, southern Africa and the Red Sea. There are at least three species of Cantharellus : C. noumeae has been reported in New Caledonia, western and eastern Australia and the Red Sea ( Hoeksema, 1989; Veron, 1993; Veron, 2000), C. jebbi Hoeksema, 1993 , has been reported to be widespread in the IWP including the Philippines, and C. doederleini (Marenzeller, 1907) from the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean (Veron, 2000). Here, we describe a specimen of C. noumeae from the Philippines extending its range more to the north of the Indo-West Pacific.