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Favia wisseli Scheer & Pichon 
AphiaID: 207426

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Faviidae (Family) > Favia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Favia Oken, 1815 accepted as Favia Milne Edwards, 1857
Sources  basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [details]

additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English knob coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Indo-Pacific [details]
Red Sea [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Note  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207426
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-10-31 12:32:54Z  created  Fondo, Esther
1998-06-04 15:30:02Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favia wisseli Scheer & Pichon. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207426 on 2013-06-20
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