WoRMS taxon details
Favia stelligera (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 207441
AphiaID: 207441
| 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 |
Favia hombroni (Rousseau) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [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 | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Amarda goniastreae Humes, 1985 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This is an easily distinguished Favia, because it forms the largest colonies and has the smallest corallites. Colonies can reach over three metres across and stand 2 metres high; large ones are composed of many upward growing cylinders 10 - 20 cm diameter, and may have a slightly club-head top. Living corallites are usually restricted to the top 20 cm or so of each club in these large colonies, though they may cover all the surface of much smaller colonies. Calices are only about 3 mm diameter which is considerably smaller than any other member of this genus, and they are very neatly formed, being perfectly round, except when budding. They are strongly plocoid, commonly being as tall as they are broad. Favia stelligera has a strong preference to very shallow water. It is rarely found deeper than about 6 m. The very large colonies are also limited to shallow water in sheltered sites such as protected fringing reefs. It is a common component of those coral communities found between shallow patch reefs where the substrate is a mixture of coarse sand and hard substrate (Sheppard, 1998). Colonies are spherical, columnar, hillocky or flat. Corallites are evenly distributed, with small calices. Colour: uniform brown or green. Abundance: seldom common but occurs in a wide range of habitats (Veron, 1986). Large domed colonies made up of numerous lobes or short columns (each 10-20 cm across), with the moderate-sized corallites (2-6 mm across) easily visible on the surface. Colour: usually a uniform pale yellow colour. Habitat: shallow reefs in clear water (Richmond, 1997). [details] Type locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207441 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favia stelligera (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207441 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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