Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Zoological Research 2373-6771 5 1 2017 3 29 New Information about the Solitary Deep-Water Corals of the Vietnamese Shelf 13 23 EN Yuri Ya. Latypov A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok AJZR2017513 10.12691/ajzr-5-1-3 2016 10 3 2017 3 3 2017 3 27 Described solitary corals collected of the shelf Vietnam when deep-water drilling on the R/V "Akademik Oparin". In general were identified 22 species, 13 genera attributed to the 6 families. One species were not previously known to science, 14 species not previously known for Vietnam. Most massive settlements have formed two species Flabellum pavonium (21spec. in samples) and Tropidocyathus longiseptum sp.nov (23 spec. in samples). Most taxonomically rich coral genera were Flabellum and Truncatoflabellum. The high density of corals noted at stations with depths 136 and 180 m, the greatest variety at a depth of 120-136 m. Deep water corals in Vietnam (54 species) are integral with the coral fauna of the Indo-Polynesian Province. These data complement the general characteristics of the knowledge of the composition, morphology and chorology world fauna solitary ahermatypic coral.