Species Javania lamprotichum (Moseley, 1880)

Calicular and oblique view of Javania lamprotichum

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Desmophyllum lamprotichum Moseley, M.A. 1880. Description of a new species of simple coral. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 41–42.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH uncatalogued One specimen, locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 103: 1–210, 44 pls, 22 maps [112].

Generic Combinations

• Javania lamprotichum (Moseley, 1880). —
  Cairns, S.D. 1984. New records of ahermatypic corals (Scleractinia) from the Hawaiian and Line Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 25(10): 1–30 [21]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, fixed, depth range: 191-881 m.

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 103: 1–210, 44 pls, 22 maps [112]

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417 [403]

Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 31–167 [124-125]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. A new shallow-water species of Javania (Scleractinia: Flabellidae) from Indonesia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52: 7–10 [8]

Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [304]

Cairns, S.D. & Zibrowius, H. 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 172: 27–243 [164]

Kitahara, M.V., Cairns S.D., Stolarski, J., Blair, D. & Miller, D.J. 2010. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial CO1 sequence data. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 5(7): e11490

Stolarski, J., Kitahara, M.V., Miller, D.J., Cairns, S.D., Mazur, M. & Meibom, A. 2011. An ancient evolutionary origin of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11(316)

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