Javania cailleti ( Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864 )

Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 1018 (1), pp. 15-46 : 42-43

Javania cailleti ( Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864)

Desmophyllum cailetti Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864: 66 , pl. 8, fig. 11.

Desmophyllum eburneum Moseley, 1881: 162 , pl. 6, figs. 1a–b.

Javania cailetti . — Cairns, 1982: 46–47, pl. 14, figs. 9–12, map 12; 1995: 29–30, pl. 10g –i (description, synonymy). — Piñón, 1999: 21, 82 (listed).

Remarks. —This species has been reported only twice from Chile ( Moseley 1881, Cairns 1982), both records from Canal Mesier, southern Chile (48°27'S: type locality of D. eburneum ) at depths of 627– 821 m. It is one of approximately a dozen cosmopolitan deepwater scleractinian species, and ranges from 86 to 2165 m ( Cairns 1994). It has been described and illustrated by Cairns (1979, 1982, 1994).