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Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) 
AphiaID: 207438

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: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [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 Chagos [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Mozambique [details]
Reunion [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]

Description: Colonies are usually flat and subplocoid. Corallites are crowded, irregular in shape and may have up to three centres. Septa are exsert, thin and very irregular; they plunge steeply inside the wall. Paliform lobes are poorly developed or absent. Colour: a wide range, usually with different-coloured corallite walls and oral discs. Abundance: common on upper reef slopes (Veron, 1986). [details]

Type locality: Type locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207438
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 14:17:27Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207438 on 2013-05-25
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