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Spongiocyathus typicus); Rhizosmilia multipalifera 
(reported as Paracyathus porphyreus); Conocyathus 
gracilis (reported as Trematotrochus zelandiae); and 
Leptopsammia columna (Figs 9f, i). An eleventh 
species, Paracyathus profundus Duncan, 1889, was 
reported, but this specimen is not preserved well 
enough to verify its identification. Folkeson's 
specimens are deposited at the Swedish Museum 
of Natural History, Stockholm. 
In a paper reporting deep-water corals from 
South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and New 
South Wales, Hoffmeister (1933) also reported one 
species, Flabellum tuthilli, from the continental 
slope of the Great Australian Bight off Western 
Australia. 
The Miocene fossil species Trematotrochus 
lateroplenus Dennant, 1899 was reported by Wells 
(1942) from Langley Park Bore, Perth. As noted in 
the species account, this fossil may be 
Trematotrochus verconis Dennant, 1904. 
In his book on Australian and Indo-Pacific reef 
corals, Veron (1986) also included a short chapter (pp. 
597-610) on Australian azooxanthellates. Although 
exact localities and specific identifications are 
sometimes wanting, eight records of Western 
Australian azooxanthellate corals can be extracted 
from this book, including the following six new 
records: Deltocyathus magnificus (reported as 
Tungiacyathus ); Cyathelia axillaris; Trochocyathus apertus 
(reported as Preniocyathus ? compressus\ Endopachys 
grayi (reported as Endopachys sp.); Heteropsammia 
cochlea; and Tubastraea coccinea (reported as T. aurea). 
Additional Western Australian records of 
Fleteropsammia cochlea can also be found in Veron and 
Marsh (1988) and Veron (1993). 
Grygier (1991) reported two Western Australian 
azooxanthellate species as hosts for petrarcid 
ascothoracidan Crustacea, one of the species, 
Flabellum tnagnificum, being a new record for this 
state, the other being Deltocyathus magnificus. In the 
same context, Grygier and Cairns (1996) reported 
Western Australian Madrepora oculata as hosts for 
these parasites. 
In a paper reviewing the Scleractinia of 
southeastern Australia, Cairns and Parker (1992) 
also included 13 new records from the southern 
coast of Western Australia: Culicia australiensis, C. 
hoffmeisteri, Anthemiphyllia dentata, Desmophyllum 
dianthus (reported as D. cristagalli), Solenosmilia 
variabilis, Conotrochus funicolumna (reported as 
Conotrochus brunneus), Trematotrochus alternans, 
Platytrochus laevigatus, P. hast at us, Australocyathus 
vincentinus, Rhizotrochus tuberculatus, Notophyllia 
recta, and N. piscacauda (reported as Notophyllia n, 
sp.). These specimens were collected by the Soela, 
R/V Comet, Adelaide Pearl, and BANZARE, and 
from the Verco and WAM collections; they are 
deposited at the South Australian Museum, 
Western Australian Museum, and NMNH. 
An additional record of Rhizotrochus tuberculatus 
from the Late Pleistocene of Cape Burney, 
southwestern Western Australia was reported by 
Johnson, Baarli, and Scott (1995). 
Finally, Cairns (1995) reported Conocyathus 
zelandiae from King George Sound, and Cairns and 
Zibrowius (1997) reported three species from the 
northeastern tip of Western Australia, one of them, 
Balanophyllia imperialis, being a new record for the 
state. 
MATERIAL AND METHODS 
Museum Abbreviations: 
AMS Australian Museum, Sydney. 
BMNH British Museum (Natural History), 
London. 
NTM Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern 
Territory, Darwin. 
NMNH National Museum of Natural History, 
Smithsonian, Washington, D. C. 
NMV National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. 
SAM South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
SMNH Swedish Museum of Natural History, 
Stockholm. 
USNM United States National Museum (now the 
National Museum of Natural History). 
WAM Western Australian Museum, Perth. 
Expedition Abbreviations: 
DEKI Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands 
(1922). 
KARUBAR French-Indonesian expedition (1991) 
that collected in the southeastern 
Banda Sea. Named for the Kai, Aru, 
and Tanimbar Islands. 
Morphological Terms Abbreviations: 
GCD 
GCD:H 
GCD:LCD 
H:D 
PD:GCD 
Sx, Cx, Px 
Sx > Sy 
SCI 
SSI 
Greater Calicular Diameter 
Ratio of greater calicular diameter to 
corallum height 
Ratio of greater to lesser calicular 
diameter 
Ratio of height to corallum diameter 
Ratio of pedicel diameter to greater 
calicular diameter 
Septa, costae, or pali (respectively) of 
cycle designated by numerical 
subscript 
Septa of cycle x wider than those of 
cycle y 
Septal Concavity Index: ratio of 
distance from thecal edge to point of 
greatest septal inflection to length of 
thecal face measured along that 
septum 
Septal Sinuosity Index: ratio of 
amplitude of lower inner edge of a 
septum to the thickness of that septum 
