Lithophyllon spinifer
Creators: name: Lane, David J. W.
name: Hoeksema, Bert W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Fungiidae
Lithophyllon
Lithophyllon spinifer

description: <i>Lithophyllon spinifer</i> (Claereboudt &amp; Hoeksema, 1987) (Figs. 3E, F) <i>Fungia</i> (<i>Verrilofungia</i>) <i>spinifer</i> Claereboudt &amp; Hoeksema, 1987: Figs. 190–201; Hoeksema, 1989: 79–83, Figs. 186–202; Hoeksema, 1993a: 6, 17, Fig. 14. Hoeksema &amp; van Ofwegen, 2004: [9 Figs.] <i>Cycloseris colini</i> Veron, 2000: 247, Figs. 4, 5; Veron, 2002: 99–101, Figs. 185–188. <i>Fungia spinifer</i> – Hoeksema, 2008: Fig. 9. <i>Lithophyllon spinifer</i> – Gittenberger et al., 2011: Table 7; Hoeksema, 2012c: Fig.8; Hoeksema &amp; Waheed, 2012a: Table 1. <b>Material examined.</b> one specimen, (RMNH Coel.42103) collected by DJWL 8 November 2014 at 32 m depth, South China Sea, Mampak patches, North Patch: N05°02.305’ E114°26.449’. Habitat: reef top, silty sand and rock amongst gorgonian fan corals and whip corals. Monostomatous and free-living. Corallum almost circular, concave, with a raised septal mound around the central fossa. Maximum diameter 97mm. <b>Louisa Reef.</b> During the brief offshore SCUBA diving visit to Louisa Reef at the southwest edge of the Spratly islands (3 rd – 4 th September 2014), the following additional location records for fungiids were made. All of these species also occur on Brunei’s continental shelf reefs (Hoeksema &amp; Lane, 2014). Confirmation of identifications was by the 2 nd author, based on specimens and/or in situ photographs. Where specimens were collected, these are deposited in the UBD Reference Collection under the following catalogue numbers: <i>Ctenactis albitentaculata</i> (image only); <i>C. crassa</i> (UBDM.6.201409.1); <i>Cycloseris tenuis</i> (UBDM.6.201409.2); <i>Danafungia horrida</i> (UBDM.6.201409.3); <i>D. scruposa</i> (UBDM.6.201409.4); <i>Herpolitha limax</i> (image only); <i>Lobactis scutaria</i> (UBDM.6.201409.5); <i>Pleuractis gravis</i> (UBDM.6.201409.6).
description: Published as part of <i>Lane, David J. W. &amp; Hoeksema, Bert W., 2016, Mesophotic mushroom coral records at Brunei Darussalam support westward extension of the Coral Triangle to the South China Sea waters of Northwest Borneo, pp. 204-212 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64</i> on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5355079
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