Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) atlantica (Duncan 1873) articles

Diagnostic Description

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Corallum ceratoid, curved, extremely robust, and presumably attached. Calice elliptical with serrate calicular edge. Theca porcellaneous, slightly granular, and slightly ridged C1. Corallum white encircling the calice and tinted brown in direction of pedicel. Septa arranged in 3 size classes and 17 sectors (17:17:34 [68 septa]) according to formula: S1>S3>S2. Wide (up to 5 mm) and slightly sinuous pali present before S2. Columella elongate composed of a fused mass of twisted elements.

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Distribution

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Australia (Cairns, 1998; Cairns, 2004; Kitahara, Cairns & Miller, 2010), 193-1230 m; eastern Atlantic including Portugal (Duncan, 1873), Morocco, Madeira Archipelago, Azores, Mediterranean Sea (Zibrowius, 1980), 860-2165 m; Ceram Sea (Alcock, 1902b), 776-2165 m; Marcus-Necker Ridge (Keller, 1981a), 1420 m; Hawaii (Vaughan, 1907 as C. alcocki), 1602 m; New Zealand (Squires & Keyes, 1967 as C. profunda; Cairns, 1995), 1004-1474 m.

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Comprehensive Description

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Caryophyllia (C.) laevicostata Moseley, 1881

Caryophyllia laevicostata.—Yabe and Eguchi, 1932a:388.

Caryophyllia sp.—Yabe and Eguchi, 1942b:162.

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bibliographic citation: Cairns, Stephen D. 1994. "Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. i-150. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.557.i