Australian Museum Journal Two new scleractinian corals from Australia
- Shortform:
- Wells, 1962, Rec. Aust. Mus. 25(11): 239–242
- Author(s):
- Wells, J. W.
- Year published:
- 1962
- Title:
- Two new scleractinian corals from Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 11
- Start page:
- 239
- End page:
- 242
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.25.1962.663
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xvi–xviii
- Date published:
- 19 June 1962
- Cover date:
- 19 June 1962
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 05 August 2009
- Reference number:
- 663
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (120kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1993kb PDF)
Abstract
Several years ago two new species of the reef-building coral genus Coscinaraea were discovered nearly simultaneously in the extreme eastern and south-western parts of Australia. ... The two new species described below occur at the extreme southern limits of hermatypic corals in eastern and south-western Australia. The most southerly occurrence of Coscinaraea known to this time is at Rundle Island (23°30'S.) on the Great Barrier Reefs (Wells, 155, p. 25, and chart), about 600 miles north of Sydney and where the winter minimum temperatures are about 17°C. The genus has not been previously reported from northwestern or western Australia. In eastern Australia the writer (1955) has noted the occurrence of a few reef coral genera as far south as Sydney: Montipora, Cyphastrea, Turbinaria, Stylocoeniella and Plesiastrea. To this short list is now added Coscinaraea mcneilli n.sp., from Manly Cove and vicinity, in waters where the temperature range is from 12°C in June to 24.5°C in January.