WoRMS taxon details
Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
AphiaID: 207455
AphiaID: 207455
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are massive with slightly angular corallites. Calices are 8-12 mm in diameter with strongly alternating septa and weakly developed paliform lobes. Columellae are large. Colour: a wide range but usually brown, sometimes with green oral discs. Abundance: common on some reefs. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Type locality: Type locality: Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207455 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207455 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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