WoRMS taxon details
Favia gravida Verrill, 1868
AphiaID: 288071
AphiaID: 288071
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Mussidae (Family) > Faviinae (Subfamily) > Favia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Favia Milne Edwards, 1857 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Favia conferta Verrill (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] additional source: Hoeksema, B.W. 2012. Extreme morphological plasticity enables a free mode of life in Favia gravida at Ascension Island (South Atlantic). Marine Biodiversity 42: 289-295. [details] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Africa [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 16 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288071 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Favia gravida Verrill, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288071 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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