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Faviinae Gregory, 1900 
AphiaID: 718680

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Mussidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subfamily
Typetaxon Favia Oken, 1815
Parent Mussidae
Sources  original description: Gregory, J.W. 1900. The corals Jurassic fauna of Cutch. Palaeontologica Indica, Ser. 9 2: 1–195, pls. 1-26. [details]

basis of record: Budd, A.F., Fukami, H., Smith, N.D. & Knowlton, N. 2012. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 465–529. [details]

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Genus Diploria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
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» Species Diploria labyrinthiformis (Linnaeus, 1758)
» Species Diploria strigosa (Dana, 1846)
Genus Favia Milne Edwards, 1857
  » Species Favia fragum (Esper, 1795)
» Species Favia gravida Verrill, 1868
Genus Manicina Ehrenberg, 1834
  » Species Manicina areolata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Genus Mussismilia Ortmann, 1890
  » Species Mussismilia braziliensis (Verrill, 1868)
» Species Mussismilia harttii (Verrill, 1867)
» Species Mussismilia hispida (Verrill, 1901)
Genus Pseudodiploria Fukami, Budd & Knowlton, 2012
  » Species Pseudodiploria strigosa (Dana, 1846)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:718680
Taxonomic
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2013-02-06 17:41:18Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Faviinae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718680 on 2013-06-20
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