410 
S.D. Caims 
Long Island, Wallabi Group, Abrolhos Islands, 3-30 
m, IV 1978, 7 colonies, WAM 193-, 194-, 197-, 198-, 
200-, 202-, and 203-78; Beacon Island, Wallabi 
Group, Abrolhos Islands, 23 IV 1974, 3, WAM 66- 
78; Ibid., 31 m, 1, WAM 479-77; Easter Group, 
Abrolhos Islands, 0.2 m, 30 VIII 1972, 1, WAM 52- 
73; Green Head, 4 m, VI 1979,1, WAM 969-79; Little 
Island, Sorrento, 14 XII 1977, 3, WAM 196-78; 
Cockbum Sound, IX 1957, 2, WAM 464-78; Rottnest 
Island, 1956, 1, WAM 138-58. 
Remarks 
Living specimens are black to dark green in 
colour (Veron 1986). 
Distribution 
Western Australia: continental shelf of western 
coast from Dampier Archipelago to Rottnest Island; 
0-30 m; common in caves, on vertical walls, and 
under ledges. Elsewhere: widespread in tropical 
Indo-west Pacific from southwestern Indian Ocean 
to Fiji; 1-54 m (Caims and Zibrowius 1997). 
Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834) 
Oculina micranthus Ehrenberg, 1834: 304. 
Tubastraea micranthus - Schuhmacher, 1984: 94, figs, 
la-b, 4.—Caims and Zibrowius, 1997: 195-196 
(synonymy and description). 
Tubastrea micrantha - Wells, 1964: 108.—Veron, 
1986: 583 (fig. 3), 585 (figs. 3, 7).—Ogawa and 
Takahashi, 1993: 99-100, pi. 4, figs. 1-6, pi. 6, 
figs. 5-6. 
New Records 
Stn "11", Ashmore Reef, 10-20 m, 15 VIII 1986, 1, 
WAM 593-86; Kendrew Island, Dampier 
Archipelago, 6-9 m, 23 V 1972, 1 branch, WAM 49- 
72; stn "ML3", Noname Bay (20°36'S, 116°45.5'E), 
Dampier Archipelago, 4-6 m, 1, WAM 413-78. 
Remarks 
Living specimen are black to dark green-black in 
colour (Veron 1986). 
Distribution 
Western Australia: Ashmore Reef and Dampier 
Archipelago; 6-10 m. Elsewhere: widespread in 
tropical Indo-West Pacific from southwestern Indian 
Ocean to Fiji; 0-60 m (Caims and Zibrowius 1997). 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
I would particularly like to thank Loisette Marsh 
(WAM), who first suggested this project and who 
graciously made the WAM specimens available to 
me for study. Mark J. Grygier was also an 
encouragement to begin and continue the work. 
I would like to thank the following people who 
have generously loaned me specimens used in this 
study: Phil Alderslade (NTM), Karin Sindemark 
(SMNH), Timothy Stranks (NMV), Wolfgang 
Zeidler (SAM), and Penny Berents (AMS). 
The scanning electron photomicrographs were 
taken in the SEM Laboratory of the National 
Museum of Natural History. 
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