Javania
| Javania | |
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| Javania insignis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Flabellidae |
| Genus: | Javania Duncan, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Javania insignis Duncan, 1876
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Desmophyllum (Javania) Duncan, 1876 | |
Javania is a genus of marine corals belonging to the family Flabellidae,[2] which was first described in 1876 by Peter Martin Duncan.[2][3]
Species of this genus are found world-wide.[4]
Description
[edit]Duncan describes the genus as "a Desmophyllum with a remarkable epitheca", and more detailedly as:[3]
JAVANIA, gen. nov.
The corallum is simple, tall, compressed at the calice, and adheres by a broad base. There is a complete epitheca, dense inferiorly, and pellicular superiorly. The larger septa are very exsert; and the tertiaries have costae much broader than they are. The costae of the primary and secondary orders project. There is no columella; and the calicular fossa is very deep. The genus is allied to Desmophyllum, Ehrenberg; but the absence of exsert higher orders of septa and the dense epitheca separate it from this form.
Species
[edit]The following species are accepted by WoRMS as belonging to the genus Javania:[1]
- Javania antarctica (Gravier, 1914)
- Javania borealis Cairns, 1994
- Javania cailleti (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
- Javania californica Cairns, 1994
- Javania clavata (Michelotti, 1871)
- Javania cristata Cairns & Polonio, 2013
- Javania deforgesi Kitahara & Cairns, 2021
- Javania duncani Wells, 1977 †
- Javania erhardti Cairns, 2004
- Javania exserta Cairns, 1999
- Javania fusca (Vaughan, 1907)
- Javania insignis Duncan, 1876
- Javania lamprotichum (Moseley, 1880)
- Javania pseudoalabastra Zibrowius, 1974
- Javania subturbinata (Michelotti, 1871) †
References
[edit]- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Javania Duncan, 1876". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- ^ a b "Genus Javania Duncan, 1876". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- ^ a b P. Martin Duncan (1876). "Notices of some deep-sea and littoral Corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, New Zealand, Persian Gulf, and Japanese, &c, Seas". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 44 (1): 428–442. doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1876.TB02582.X. ISSN 0370-2774. Wikidata Q56154805. BHL page 29099641
- ^ "GBIF: Javania Duncan, 1876". gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
