Cantharellus noumeae 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 : 286

Cantharellus noumeae Hoeksema & Best

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Cantharellus noumeae Hoeksema & Best, 1984: 323-328 , figs. 2- 9; Hoeksema, 1989: 212-215; Veron, 2000 vol. 2: 252.

Cycloseris noumeae – Veron, 1986: 32; Veron & Marsh, 1988: 81.

Material examined. – One sample (11.5 cm long by 10.5 cm wide by 6.1 cm tall) (P1L01385), Pagbilao Grande Island, Quezon, southern Luzon (map coordinates: 13.91046 N, 121.73613 E, Depth: 6 m), coll. Wilfredo Y. Licuanan, 27 Nov.2002 .

Description. – Corallum 11.5 cm in diameter, encrusting, composed of 8-13 irregular, somewhat tiered, fan-like lobes of septo-costae radiating from 31 corallite centers 2 to 5.4 cm in diameter. Septo-costae of four to five orders. First order septa exsert, with fine club-like, branched dentations all throughout their margins. These reach the columella and extend to the lobe margin without branching. Second order septa less exsert but are also unbranched and have the same type of septal margins. These higher order septa typically do not extend to the corallite center. Third order septa are usually found between the second and first orders and are composed of two to three fourth order septa. The latter fuse about a fourth to a third the way from the lobe margin to become the third order septa. For every three fourth order branches of septa, the central one does not usually branch while the two lateral to it may branch to two fifth order septa, each near the lobe margins. Compound synapticulae connect the septa laterally. The sides of the septa have numerous granulations. Columella composed of vertical pencil-like trabeculae and lobe-like extensions of the first order septa. Costae are equal to sub-equal and have similar margins as the septa. They remain distinct up to the point of attachment.

FAMILY POCILLOPORIDAE

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Fig. 2. Colony and close-up of Cantharellus noumeae (P1L01385).