Javania cailleti

Author
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864

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Min Depth
30 meters
Max Depth
1809 meters
Overall Geographic Range
worldwide or cosmopolitan (subsumes Eastern Atlantic), the region from 25°06’N, 80°26’W, a position south of South Sound Creek on Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida, to the St. Lucie Inlet (27°10.0624’N, 80°08.3750’W), southeast United States (warm temperate waters south of Cape Hatteras to the St. Lucie Inlet: 27°10.0624’N), Bahamas, Caribbean, eastern South America
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • azooxanthellate
  • hard substrate
  • slope (200–3000 m)
References

  • Cairns, S.D. 1979. The deepwater Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and Other Caribbean Islands 57(180): 1–341, 40 pls, 60 maps.

  • Ludwick, J. C., and W. R. Walton. 1957. Shelf-edge, calcareous prominences in northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(9): 2054–2101, 19 figs.

  • Rezak, R., T. J. Bright, and D. W. McGrail. 1985. Reefs and Banks of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Their Geological, Biological, and Physical Dynamics. John Wiley and Sons, New York. xviii + 259 pp.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Cairns, S. D., W. C. Jaap, and J. C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-05-2024.

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