WoRMS taxon details
Favites Link, 1807
AphiaID: 206158
AphiaID: 206158
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Merulinidae Verrill, 1865 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Favites abdita (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Favites acuticollis Species Favites aspera Verrill Species Favites bennettae Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 Species Favites bestae Veron, 2002 Species Favites chinensis (Verrill, 1866) Species Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Favites favosa (Ellis & Solander) Species Favites flexuosa Dana, 1846 Species Favites halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Favites micropentagona Veron, 2002 Species Favites paraflexuosa Veron, 2002 Species Favites pentagona (Esper, 1794) Species Favites peresi Faure & Pichon Species Favites robusta (Dana) Species Favites russelli (Wells, 1954) Species Favites stylifera Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937 Species Favites melicerum accepted as Favia bestae Veron, 2000 Species Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 accepted as Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman Best, 1977) Species Favites virens Dana, 1846 accepted as Favites abdita (Ellis & Solander, 1786) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are usually massive, either flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are monocentric and cerioid, occasionally subplocoid. Adjacent corallites mostly share common walls. Paliform lobes are often poorly developed. Polyps are extended only at night and have a single circle of tapering tentacles like Favia (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Favites astrinus Link, 1807 from an unknown locality Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206158 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Favites Link, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206158 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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