Pleuractis paumotensis ( Stutchbury, 1833 )

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 : 573

Pleuractis paumotensis ( Stutchbury, 1833)

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Fungia paumotensis – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 136. This free-living species is very common at Brunei: recorded at all 17 sites ( Table 2). Several specimens were infested by acoel flatworms of the genus Waminoa (see Hoeksema & Farenzena, 2012)

Figures

Fig. 5. A, Heliofungia actiniformis at Littledale Shoal, north; B, Polyphyllia talpina at Pelong Rocks, southwest; C, Pleuractis granulosa at Littledale Shoal, south; D, Pleuractis gravis at Littledale Shoal, south; E, Pleuractis moluccensis at Pelong Rocks, southwest; F, Pleuractis paumotensis at Abana Rock, south; G, Pleuractis taiwanensis at Pelong Rocks, north; H, Lobactis scutaria at Pelong Rocks, northeast.