Species Javania fusca (Vaughan, 1907)

Calicular and lateral views of Javania fusca

© Copyright Marcelo Visentini Kitahara

Museums

Regional Maps

• Placotrochus fuscus Vaughan, T.W. 1907. Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 59: 1-427.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 20733 and 20734 One specimen (Albatross stn. 3999), Kauai and Molokai Islands, Hawaii - 271 m.

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1991a. Catalog of the type specimens of stony corals (Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, Scleractinia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 514: 1–59; 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 [126].
• Javania pachytheca 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 [112–113].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZOI H631 One specimen (NZOI stn. K846), off Macauley Island, Kermadecs [30°13.1'S / 178°32.0'W, 610 m.].
  Paratype(s) USNM 82014 Ten specimens (NZOI stn. C527 [ex NZOI P-1047 ?]), [32°30.0'S / 179°12.0'W, 508 m.]; USNM 94284 One specimen (NZOI stn. S562 [ex NZOI P- 1051 ?]), [35°49.2'S / 172°54.0'E, 505-600 m.]; NZOI P-1048 One specimen (NZOI stn. J716), [36°04.2'S / 178°00.6'E, 785-990 m.]; NZOI P-1049 One specimen (NZOI stn. P57), [33°15.0'S / 169°59.0'E, 563-614 m.]; NZOI P-1050 One specimen (NZOI stn. Q68), [29°14.0'S / 159°00.0'E, 1045-1212 m.]; USNM 94285 One specimen (NZOI stn. T182 [ex NZOI P-1052 ?]), [18°57.9'S / 159°44.0'W, 375-672 m.]; USNM 94286 One specimen (NZOI stn. T226 [ex NZOI P-1053 ?]), [28°33.0'S / 177°50.0'W, 800-930 m.]; AM G15502 One specimen (RV Franklin stn. 5/89/40), [26°45.3'S / 159°31.0'E, 315-360 m.].

  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 [112–113].

Generic Combinations

• Javania fusca (Vaughan, 1907). —
  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 [125-126]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia also reported from Eastern Seamounts

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, fixed, depth range: 260-1434 m.

General References

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 [165]

Kitahara, M. V. 2011. Morphological and molecular systematics of scleractinian corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with emphasis on deep-water species. PhD thesis - Molecular Biology, James Cook University. pp. 630 [92-94]

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