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502
Comments Composite cross-sectional diagram of a calice illustrating various septal insertion patterns: upper right system with three cycles of septa, upper left system with four cycles, and lower two systems with various stages of development of the Poutralčs plan. Numbers refer to cycle to which septa belong.
Reference Cairns, S. D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557: 150 pp.
Body Part calice
Type Holotype
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 1994
Attached to Group Dendrophylliidae: view page image collection
Title Pourtales.gif
Image Type Diagram
Image Content Body Parts
ID 502
509
Scientific Name Leptopenus antarctica
Location Ross Sea, Antarctica (depth 2032 m)
Comments note the extremely delicate skeleton
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Body Part skeleton
View Calicular view
Size Diameter of corallum 18 mm
Type Holotype
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 2002
Attached to Group Leptopenus (Micrabaciidae): view page image collection
Title Leptopenus_antarctica.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 509
700
Scientific Name Madrepora oculata
Location Galapagos (depth 717 m)
Comments A flabellate colony. This is one of about a dozen coral species to have a cosmopolitan distribution.
Reference Cairns, S. D. 1991. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 504: 32 pp.
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Size Height of colony 100 mm
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 1991
Attached to Group Madrepora (Oculininae): view page image collection
Title Madrepora_oculata.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 700
936
Scientific Name Tubastraea micrantha
Location collected from shallow water off Pulau
Comments A living colony having branches about 20 mm in diameter, collected from shallow water off Pulau. Although azooxanthellate, this species often attains a colony size of up to a meter and thus contributes to reef structure.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Size branches about 20 mm in diameter
Copyright © D. Faulkner
Image Use ToL use only
Attached to Group Tubastraea (Dendrophylliidae): view page image collection
Title Tubastraea_micrantha_w.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 936
948
Scientific Name Oculina profunda
Location off California (depth 578 m)
Reference Cairns, S. D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557: 150 pp.
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Body Part branch fragment
Size Branch about 3.5 mm thick
Type Paratype
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 1994
Attached to Group Oculina (Oculininae): view page image collection
Title Oculina_profunda.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information SEM
ID 948
992
Scientific Name Cyathotrochus pileus
Location the Philippines (depth 494 m)
Comments Note the deep intercostal grooves.
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Body Part skeleton
View Side view
Size Width of corallum 23 mm
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 2002
Attached to Group Cyathotrochus (Turbinoliidae): view page image collection
Title Cyathotrochus_pileus.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Body Parts
ID 992
1072
Scientific Name Deltocyathus rotulus
Location off Sabah, Borneo (depth 871 m)
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Body Part skeleton
View Calicular view
Size Diameter of calice 30 mm
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 2002
Attached to Group Deltocyathus (Caryophylliidae): view page image collection
Title Deltocyathus_rotulus.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Body Parts
ID 1072
1172
Scientific Name Caryophyllia ambrosia
Location St. Christopher, Lesser Antilles (depth 622 m)
Comments This species represents caryophylliids having an unattached, solitary, cornute growth form.
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Body Part skeleton
View Calicular view
Size Greater diameter of corallum 34 mm
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 2002
Attached to Group Caryophyllia (Caryophylliidae): view page image collection
Title Caryophyllia_ambrosia.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Body Parts
ID 1172
1357
Comments basic morphological features of an attached, solitary scleractinian
Reference Cairns, S. D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology., 557: 150 pp.
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © 1994
Attached to Group Caryophyllia (Caryophylliidae): view page image collection
Title tol33.jpg
Image Type Diagram
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 1357
1496
Scientific Name Fungiacyathus marenzelleri
Location off northwestern New Zealand (depth 2431 m)
Reference Cairns, S. D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoirs, 103: 210 pp.
Specimen Condition Fossil
Body Part skeleton
View Calicular view
Size Diameter of corallum 35 mm
Copyright © 1995 National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Fungiacyathus: view page image collection
Title Fungiac_marenzelleri_calc.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 1496
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