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Javania Duncan, 1876 
AphiaID: 135115

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Flabellidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Javania insignis Duncan, 1876 (type by monotypy)
Parent Flabellidae Bourne, 1905
Sources  basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smith. Cont. Zool. 486: 136 pp., 42 pls., 3 figs. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.  [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Javania antarctica (Gravier, 1914)
Species Javania borealis Cairns, 1994
Species Javania cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Javania californica Cairns, 1994
Species Javania erhardti Cairns, 2004
Species Javania exserta Cairns, 1999
Species Javania fusca (Vaughan, 1907)
Species Javania insignis Duncan, 1876
Species Javania lamprotichum (Moseley, 1880)
Species Javania pseudoalabastra Zibrowius, 1974

Species Javania pachytheca Cairns, 1995 accepted as Javania fusca (Vaughan, 1907)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 30-2165 m [details]

Fossil range: Eocene to Recent [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135115
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-09-13 06:47:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-16 22:52:29Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Javania Duncan, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135115 on 2013-05-26
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