Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Western Australia 
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Distribution 
Western Australia: continental slope of 
northwestern coast from south of Scott Reef to Port 
Hedland; 150-404 m; 9.6°-19°C. Elsewhere: Japan 
through Indonesia; 60-520 m (Cairns and 
Zibrowius 1997). 
Balanophyllia generatrix Cairns and Zibrowius, 
1997 
Balanophyllia generatrix Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 
183-184, figs. 25 g-i, figs. 26 a-b. 
New Records 
Soela: stn 01/84/55, 3 quasicolonies: 2 (WAM 17- 
85), 1 (USNM 96695); stn 01/84/56, 3 
quasicolonies, WAM 564-84; stn 01/84/57, 2 
quasicolonies, WAM 16-85; stn 01/84/75, 1 
corallum, WAM 798-84; stn 01/84/120, 1 
quasicolony, WAM 199-93. 
Lady Basten: stn LB7(s), 13 quasicolonies: 11 
(WAM 46-96), 2 (USNM 96692). 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental slope of 
northwestern coast from west of Browse Island to 
south of Rowley Shoals; 200-530 m; soft substrates. 
Elsewhere: Philippines and Indonesia; 96-535 m 
(Cairns and Zibrowius 1997). 
Balanophyllia spp. 
Records 
Soela: stn 02/82/9, 1, WAM 96-83; stn 02/82/ 
10A, 10, WAM 46- and 450-96; stn 02/82/13A, 2, 
WAM 83- and 93-84; stn 05/82/46, 1, WAM 68- 
83; stn 05/82/47, 1, WAM 64-83; 05/82/59, 1, 
WAM 704-84. 
Sprightly: stn 35M, 1, WAM 362-79. 
Diamantim : stn 92, 1, WAM 146-83. 
Dorothea: 150 mi (240 km) ENE Troughton Island, 
91 m, 1, WAM 258-93. 
Other records: Abrolhos Islands, coll. Dakin, 1915, 
1, WAM 128-58. 
Remarks 
The taxonomy of the approximately 54 valid 
Recent species (Best el al. 1995) of 
Balanophyllia is in need of revision. Whereas 
four species can be identified with some 
confidence from Western Australia, additional 
species occur off this coast from the Arafura 
Sea to Abrolhos (34-201 m), represented by 
the unidentified specimens listed above. But, 
until additional specimens are collected from 
this coast, and the taxonomy of the genus is 
better known, these specimens will remain 
unidentified. 
Genus Endopachys Lonsdale, 1845 
Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards and Haime, 
1848b 
Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848b: 
82-83, pi. 1, figs. 2, 2a.—Veron, 1986: 610, black 
and white fig.—Cairns, 1994: 84-85, pi. 36, figs, 
e, h, pi. 37, fig. i (synonymy and description); 
1995: 121-122, pi. 41, figs, c-h (description).— 
Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 185-186. 
New Records 
Soela: stn 05/82/47, 1, WAM 65-83. 
Diamantim: stn 185, 1, WAM 451-96. 
Lady Basten: stn LB5(s), 4, WAM 457-96; stn 
LB5(t), 1, WAM 16-96. 
Other records: between Shark Bay and Onslow, no 
depth, coll. W. and W. Poole, 1966, 1, WAM 168-83. 
Remarks 
Veron (1986) listed another Recent species of 
Endopachys from Australia: E. australiae Tenison 
Woods, 1878b (type locality: Port Jackson, NSW, 
146 m); however, the original description and 
figure of E. australiae are not consistent with a 
placement in this genus. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental shelf of 
northwestern coast off Port Hedland and Cape 
Farquhar; 128-150 m. Elsewhere: Indo-Pacific from 
southwestern Indian Ocean to Gulf of California, 
including Japan, New Zealand, and Hawaiian 
Islands; 37-386 m (Cairns and Zibrowius 1997). 
Endopachys bulbosa Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997 
Figure 8 k-1 
Endopachys bulbosa Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997: 
186, figs. 27 a-g. 
New Record 
Soela: stn 01/84/85, 1, WAM 678-84. 
Distribution 
Western Australia: off Cape Leveque (south of 
Scott Reef); 220-224 m. Elsewhere: Arafura Sea 
south of Tanimbar Islands; 233-251 m (Cairns and 
Zibrowius, 1997). 
Genus Notophyllia Dennant, 1899 
Notophyllia piscacauda sp. nov. 
Figure 9 a-e 
Notophyllia sp. Cairns and Parker, 1992: 52 ("sixth 
undescribed species"). 
Records 
King George Sound, 40-51 m, Verco collection, 
