WoRMS taxon details
Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman Best, 1977)
AphiaID: 207427
AphiaID: 207427
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Indo-Pacific [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This species has calices which are very large, reaching 2 cm diameter. Because of this is easily recognised. Underwater, the polyps appear as thick rings of fleshy tissue, thick enough to completely obscure the skeleton beneath. While it cannot be mistaken for any other member of its genus, it is of similar size to Montastrea magnistellata and Favites flexuosa. This species is not uncommon and is conspicuous both because of its large corallites and large colony size. It is found mostly on exposed, clear water slopes below 7 m deep (Sheppard, 1998). Colonies are dome-shaped or flat. Corallites are thick-walled, circular, tending to be subplocoid, with calices 17-20 mm in diameter. Polyps are fleshy and circular in outline. Colour: pale grey, yellowish or brown. Abundance: uncommon but conspicuous (Veron, 1986). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207427 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman Best, 1977). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207427 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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