Truncatoflabellum compressum (Lamarck, 1816)

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 : 15

Taxon classification Animalia Scleractinia Flabellidae

Truncatoflabellum compressum (Lamarck, 1816) Fig. 6D

Fungia compressa Lamarck, 1816: 235; 1827: pl. 483, fig. 2.

Flabellum compressum : Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 273-274 (synonymy).- Duncan 1864: 167.

Flabellum stokesii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 278, pl. 8, fig. 12.- Moseley 1881: 172-173 (in part: Challenger 190).- Gerth 1921: 402, pl. 567, fig. 14.-Not Umbgrove 1950: 640.-Not Scheer and Pillai 1974: 62 (= Truncatoflabellum crassum ).

Flabellum oweni Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 279, pl. 8, fig. 9.

Truncatoflabellum stokesi : Cairns 1989b: 66, Table 6, pl. 33b-h, j (synonymy).

Truncatoflabellum compressum : Cairns 1989b: 61 (listed).

Distribution.

Miocene: Java. Holocene: Philippines, Indonesia, "Indian Ocean" (Lamarck, 1816), 12-256 m.

Remarks.

This species, with a name overlooked since 1864, was beautifully illustrated by Lamarck (1827). Its description and illustration (Fig. 6D, top) leave little doubt that it is the species that has become known as Truncatoflabellum stokesi .