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WoRMS taxon detailsFaviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
196099 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196099)
accepted
Family
Favia De Blainville, 1820 (type by subsequent designation)
Astraeidae Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Faviidae Gregory, 1900 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (homonymy)
Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
Status Milne Edwards (1857, p. 426) created the tribe Faviacees, also providing the Latinized version of it (=Faviaceae). Soon...
Status Milne Edwards (1857, p. 426) created the tribe Faviacees, also providing the Latinized version of it (=Faviaceae). Soon after, Faviaceae was used by d'Achiardi (1866, p. 5) and other authors. [details] Description It is the biggest family in terms of number of genera, and ranks next to the Acroporidae in number of species. All extant...
Description It is the biggest family in terms of number of genera, and ranks next to the Acroporidae in number of species. All extant species are hermatypic and colonial. Septa, paliform lobes, columellae and wall structures, when present, all appear to be structurally similar. Septal structures are simple, columellae are a simple tangle of elongate septal teeth, walls are composed of thickened septa and cross-linkages. Related families are Merulinidae and Trachyphylliidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
WoRMS (2025). Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196099 on 2025-02-13
Date action by 2009-08-11 09:20:33Z changed db_admin
original description
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
original description (of Mussidae Ortmann, 1890) Ortmann, A. E. (1890). Die Morphologie des Skeletts des Steinkorallen in Beziehung zur Koloniebildung. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig.</em> 50: 278–316. [details] original description (of Astraeidae Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]  original description (of Faviidae Gregory, 1900) Gregory JW. (1900). On the West-Indian species of Madrepora. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology, Series 7.</em> 6: 20-31. [details] additional source Gregory JW. (1900). The Jurassic fauna of Cutch. The corals. <em>Palaeontologica Indica, Ser 9.</em> 2 (2): 1-195, pls. 2-27. [details] additional source Baron-Szabo, R. C. (2018). Nomenclatural notes on the genus Favia (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviina: Faviidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 131(1): 197-201., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/18-00006 [details] additional source Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details] additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [details] additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] source of synonymy Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Remark The second option appears to be more likely, because if Milne Edwards (1857) had intended for the Agele-groups to represent family-level taxa, then in the case of Oculinidae he would have created a subfamily between the family Oculinidae and the Agele-groups Oculinacees and Stylastreacees. But instead, Milne Edwards strictly applied this model in at least four places in the volumes concerned, strongly indicating that the Agele-groups are not family-level taxa. [details]Status Milne Edwards (1857, p. 426) created the tribe Faviacees, also providing the Latinized version of it (=Faviaceae). Soon after, Faviaceae was used by d'Achiardi (1866, p. 5) and other authors. [details] Unreviewed
Description It is the biggest family in terms of number of genera, and ranks next to the Acroporidae in number of species. All extant species are hermatypic and colonial. Septa, paliform lobes, columellae and wall structures, when present, all appear to be structurally similar. Septal structures are simple, columellae are a simple tangle of elongate septal teeth, walls are composed of thickened septa and cross-linkages. Related families are Merulinidae and Trachyphylliidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
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