Species Javania insignis Duncan, 1876

Calicular and lateral views of Javania insignis

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Javania insignis Duncan, P.M. 1876. Recent corals from the South Australian and Victorian coasts. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 1–11.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1973.2.20.1 One specimen, Owase, Japan [34°13’N / 136°13’E, 88 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [80].
• Flabellum weberi Alcock, A. 1902. Diagnoses and descriptions of new species of corals from the Siboga expedition. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 7: 89–115 [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA Coel. 1232 One specimen (Siboga stn. 310), Flores Sea [8°30'S / 119°07.5'E, 73 m.].

  Type locality references:

  Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [90].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Britannia Seamount

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary, azooxanthellate, fixed

General References

Alcock, A. 1902. Diagnoses and descriptions of new species of corals from the Siboga expedition. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging 2 7: 89–115

Cairns, S.D. 1994. Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 557: 150 pp. [80]

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

Cairns, S.D. & Keller, N.B. 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum 5 103: 213–292 13 figs

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

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 [94-96]

Marenzeller, E. von 1907. Riftkorallen expeditionen S.M. Pola in das Rote Meer. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXVI. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 80: 27–97

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