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Favites chinensis (Verrill, 1866) 
AphiaID: 207451

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Favites Link, 1807
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 larger star coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
East Africa [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]

Description: Colonies are massive and rounded. Corallites are singular, with thin walls. Calices are 10-13 mm in diameter. Septa are straight and widely spaced, without paliform lobes and are aligned with those of adjacent corallites. Colour: yellow or greenish-brown. Abundance: uncommon but occurs in a wide range of habitats. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]

Type locality: Hong Kong (Veron, 1986). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207451
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-01-31 16:37:49Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favites chinensis (Verrill, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207451 on 2013-05-22
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