African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Favites magnistellata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)

WoRMS taxon details

Favites magnistellata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)

AphiaID

1289661 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289661)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Favites Link, 1807

Original name

Prionastrea magnostellata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Synonymised names

Favia magnistellata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971) · unaccepted > junior homonym

Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Montastrea maagnistellata Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym, misspelling)

Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Phymastrea magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Prionastraea magnistellata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Prionastrea magnostellata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Prionastrea magnostellata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 12, 3, 95-197. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Favites magnistellata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289661 on 2025-04-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-08-10 08:57:37Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-09-11 16:48:54Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2021-01-04 14:50:38Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details]

original description (of Prionastrea magnostellata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 12, 3, 95-197. [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Verrill A. E. (1901). Variations and nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian and Brazilian reef corals, with notes on various Indo-Pacific corals. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 63-168., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13464046
page(s): 92 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 152-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 354-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 39-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 468-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 55-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 588-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 846-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) WAM 936-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) QM, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) RMCA, geounit Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) RMNH 8525 [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) RMNH 9526 [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) RMNH 9527 [details]

Unknown type (of Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971) ZMAN 6386 [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	false knob coral [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	オオマルキクメイシ	[details]

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Phymastrea magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971))
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Montastrea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Favites magnistellata) (from synonym Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Favites magnistellata)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (3 records) (from synonym Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971))