Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Western Australia 
BG46, 2, NTM C8012; stn BG47, 2, NTM C8049; stn 
BG56, 2, NTM C8016; stn BG77, 53, NTM C8019; 
stn BG80, 3, NTM C8021; stn BG82, 70, NTM 
C8052; stn BG83, 2, NTM C8023; stn BG86, 3, NTM 
C8029. 
Other records: Stn pAe, Mermaid Sound, Dampier 
Archipelago, 9 m, 10 II 1981, 1, WAM 341-88; stn 
Pac, Ibid., 7-9 m, 13 II 1981, 1, USNM 96668. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental shelf of 
northwestern coast from Bonaparte Gulf to 
Dampier Archipelago; 9-90 m. Elsewhere: Indo- 
West Pacific from Gulf of Manaar through 
Indonesia and the Philippines; Northern Territory 
(Beagle Gulf and Anson Bay); Queensland; 6-289 
m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997). 
Genus Javania Duncan, 1876 
Javania lamprotichum (Moseley, 1880) 
Figure 8 j, m 
Desmophyllum lamprotichum Moseley, 1880: 41-42, 
figs. 1-2. 
Javania lamprotichum - Cairns, 1995: 112, pi. 37, figs, 
b-c (synonymy and description).—Cairns and 
Zibrowius, 1997: 164. 
New Records 
Soda: stn 02/82/14, 1, WAM 101-83; stn 02/82/ 
16, 4: 3 (WAM 103- and 104-83), 1 (USNM 96678). 
Lady Basten: stn LB7(s), 2: 1 (WAM 47-96), 1 
(USNM 96682). 
Remarks 
One specimen from Lady Basten station LB7(s) 
was infested with several large acrothoracican 
cirripedes (Figure 8 j, m), the elongate thecal 
efferent pores up to 3.6 mm in length and 1.8 mm 
in width. This parasitism was previously reported 
by Cairns and Zibrowius (1997). 
Distribution 
Western Australia: northwestern coast from 
south of Rowley Shoals to Port Hedland; 200-201 
m. Elsewhere: central and western Pacific 
(Flawaiian Islands; Johnston Atoll; Philippines; 
403 
Kermadec Ridge); 191-842 m (Cairns and 
Zibrowius 1997). 
Genus Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards and Haime, 
1848a 
Rhizotrochus tuberculatus (Tenison Woods, 1879) 
Vasillum tuberculatus Tenison Woods, 1879: 93, pi. 
10, figs. 3a, b. 
Monomyces radiatus - Squires, 1966: 172, pi. 1, figs. 
1-2.—Shepherd and Veron, 1982:177, fig. 4.54f. 
Monomyces - Veron, 1986: 603. 
Rhizotrochus tuberculatus - Cairns and Parker, 1992: 
49-50, figs. 16 g-i (synonymy and 
description).—Johnson, Baarli, and Scott, 1995: 
95, fig. 9A-C. 
New Records 
Beacon Island, Wallabi Group, Abrolhos Islands, 
depth unknown, 24 IV 1974, 1, WAM 247-93; 
Salmon Point, Rottnest Island, depth unknown, 
1950, 1, WAM 127-58; Ibid., 1-2 m, 17 I 1991, 2: 1 
(WAM 9-91), 1 (USNM 96683); Cowaramup Bay, 
depth unknown, 24 II 1985, 1, WAM 57-85; 
Cowaramup Bay, depth unknown, 21 X 1989, 1, 
WAM 1131-89; Ellenbrook, west of Margaret 
River, 1 III 1976, 1, WAM 249-93; Ibid., 31 VIII 
1976, 4, WAM 251-93. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental shelf of 
southwestern coast from Abrolhos Islands to 
Hopetoun, including Late Pleistocene of Cape 
Burney, near Geraldton; 1-2 m. Elsewhere: South 
Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania; 0-73 m (Cairns 
and Parker 1992). 
Genus Polymyces Cairns, 1979 
Polymyces wellsi Cairns, 1991 
Polymyces wellsi Cairns, 1991: 22, pi. 8, figs, f, i, pi. 
9, figs a-b; 1995: 108-109, pi. 35, figs, d-f, map 
10. —Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 160-161. 
New Record 
Lady: stn RW96-29, 1, NTM C8089. 
M Figure 8 a, Truncatoflabellum angiostomum, WAM 255-93, a young anthocyathus (left) and an anthocaulus (right), x 1.7. 
b, T. australiensis, paratypes, WAM 442-96, anthocaulus (left) and small anthocyathus (right), x 1.7. c, T. 
veroni, paratype, WAM 445-96, anthocaulus, x 2.3; d-e, g-i, T. macroeschara: d, paratype, WAM 230-93, 
anthocaulus, x 2.0; e, g-i, side, calicular, basal scar, and edge views of holotype, x 1.0, x 1.2, x 1.7, x 1.9, 
respectively, f, P lacotrochus laevis: NTM TP32, series showing an anthocaulus with incipient fracture line, an 
anthocyathus still attached to anthocaulus, and a detached anthocyathus, x 2.0. j, m, Javania lamprotichum, 
Lady Basten stn LB7(s), USNM 96682, acrothoracican cirripede borings, x 2.4, x 13, respectively, k-1, 
Endopachys btllbosa, Soela stn 01/84/85, WAM 678-84, side view and enlargement of massive base, x 1.2, x 
1.8, respectively. 
