Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Western Australia 
Eucla (Caims and Parker 1992); off Port Hedland; 
south of Cartier Island; 154-240 m. Elsewhere: 
Indo-West Pacific (widespread from southwestern 
Indian Ocean to Japan, including Kermadecs and 
southeastern Australia); 50-570 m (Cairns and 
Zibrowius 1997). 
Suborder Caryophylliina 
Family Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 
Genus Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801 
Subgenus Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801 
Caryophyllia (C.) transversalis Moseley, 1881 
Caryophyllia clavus var. transversalis Moseley, 1881: 
134-135, pi. 1, figs. 2, 2a. 
Caryophyllia (C.) transversalis - Cairns and 
Zibrowius 1997: 90-91, figs 6 f-h (description). 
New Records 
Soela: stn 01/84/74, 1, WAM 533-84; stn 01/84/ 
78, 1, USNM 97814; stn 01/84/85, 2, WAM 683-84; 
stn 01/84/87, 1, WAM 685-84. 
Umataka Mam: stn 6921, 3, WAM 154-84; stn 
6930, 1, WAM 241-93. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental slope of 
northwestern coast from Browse Island to south of 
Rowley Shoals; 224-302 m. Elsewhere: Indonesia; 
210-397 m (Caims and Zibrowius 1997). 
Caryophyllia (C.) rugosa Moseley, 1881 
Caryophyllia rugosa Moseley, 1881: 141-143, pi. 1, 
figs. 8a-b.—Caims, 1994: 47, pi. 20, fig. i, pi. 21, 
fig. a (synonymy and description); 1995: 43-44, 
pi. 6, fig. h, pi. 7, figs.a-c.—Cairns and 
Zibrowius, 1997: 91-92. 
New Records 
Soela: stn 05/82/36, 2: 1 (WAM 67-83), 1 (USNM 
97815). 
Lady Basten: stn LB7(s), 1, WAM 456-96. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: south of Rowley Shoals and 
off Port Hedland; 180-200 m; 17.4°C. Elsewhere: 
widespread in Indo-Pacific from southwestern 
Indian Ocean to Hawaiian Islands, including Japan 
and Kermadec Islands; 71-508 m (Cairns and 
Zibrowius 1997). 
Caryophyllia (C.) quadragenaria Alcock, 1902a 
Caryophyllia quadragenaria Alcock, 1902a: 91- 
92.—Cairns, 1995: 45-46, pi. 7, figs, g-h 
375 
(synonymy and description).—Cairns and 
Zibrowius, 1997: 93. 
New Records 
Soela: stn 02/82/ 10A, 4: 2 (WAM 44-84), 2 
(USNM 97816); stn 02/82/13A, 1, WAM 84-84. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: off Port Hedland; 154-201 m 
on rubble substrate. Elsewhere: western Pacific 
from Japan to New Zealand (Caims and Zibrowius 
1997); 54-385 m. 
Caryophyllia (C.) stellula sp. nov. 
Figure 2 a-c 
Caryophyllia epithecata - Gardiner, 1904: 114-117 (in 
part: localities I-V; pi. 1, figs. 3 a-c).—Cairns 
and Keller, 1993: 219 [Not Caryophyllia clavus 
var. epithecata Duncan, 1873: 312-313, pi. 48, 
figs. 13-16 (=C. smithii)]. 
Records 
Diamantina: stn 25, holotype and 11 paratypes: 7 
(WAM 301-88), 4 (USNM 97817); stn 20, 1 
paratype, WAM 250-93; 
Comet: 33°19'S, 128°00-05’E, 240-245 m, 13-14 I 
1989, 4 paratypes, SAM H853, 856, and 871; 
33°20'S, 127°45-50'E, 240-260 m, 16 I 1989, 10 
paratypes, SAM H852, 855, 857, 859; 33°19'S, 
127°31'E, 240 m, 12 1 1989,1 paratype, SAM H851. 
Type Locality 
31°48'S, 114°08'E (west of Rottnest Island); 
402 m. 
Description 
Corallum ceratoid, often curved up to 90°, 
usually having a slender (0.6-1.3 mm diameter) 
eroded, unattached base. However, several coralla 
have a narrow attached pedicel, the PD:GCD only 
0.11-0.15, these coralla also slightly curved. The 
base of one corallum encrusts a small shell 
fragment, and is in the process of enveloping it and 
becoming free of attachment. Calice elliptical: 
GCD:LCD = 1.08-1.37. Longest specimen 
(holotype) 11.7 x 10.7 mm in calicular diameter and 
31.1 mm in length, having an open eroded base. 
Theca thick and sparsely covered with encrusting 
calcareous epifauna and often bored with tiny 
holes. Intercostal striae shallow, resulting in poorly 
defined costae; costal granulation low and 
inconspicuous, about 4 low, rounded granules 
occurring across the width of a costa. Theca thick, 
producing a dense corallum; theca adjacent to 
calicular edge light yellow-brown. 
Septa hexamerally arranged in 4 cycles (Sl- 
2>S3>S4), a full fourth cycle attained at a GCD 
as small as 6 mm. Specimen with largest calice 
