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Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

196099  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196099)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Faviidae (Family)
accepted
Family
Favia de Blainville, 1820 (type by subsequent designation)
Astraeidae Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyclophyllopsidae Alloiteau, 1952 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Faviaceae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Faviidae Gregory, 1900 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (homonymy)
Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Subfamily Faviinae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
    1. Genus Colpophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
    2. Genus Diploria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
    3. Genus Favia de Blainville, 1820
    4. Genus Manicina Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
    5. Genus Mussismilia Ortmann, 1890
    6. Genus Pseudodiploria Fukami, Budd & Knowlton, 2012
    7. Genus Favia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Favia de Blainville, 1820 (unaccepted > junior homonym)
    8. Genus Favia Oken, 1815 accepted as Favia de Blainville, 1820 (unaccepted > unavailable name)
    9. Genus Podasteria Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Manicina Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    10. Genus Protomussa Matthai, 1928 accepted as Mussismilia Ortmann, 1890 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    11. Genus Teleiophyllia Duncan, 1864 accepted as Manicina Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  2. Subfamily Mussinae Ortmann, 1890
    1. Genus Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
    2. Genus Mussa Oken, 1815
    3. Genus Mycetophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
    4. Genus Scolymia Haime, 1852
    5. Genus Lithodendron Schweigger, 1819 accepted as Mussa Oken, 1815 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  3. Tribe Faviaceae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
  4. Genus Isophyllastraea Matthai, 1928 accepted as Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, misspelling)
  5. Genus Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928 accepted as Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  6. Genus Maeandrites Houttuyn, 1772 accepted as Colpophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Faviaceae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) 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]
WoRMS (2026). Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196099 on 2026-06-03
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Nomenclature

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: 1-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Cyclophyllopsidae Alloiteau, 1952 †) Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. <em>In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Volume 1. Paris: Masson.</em> 539–782, pls. 1-10. [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] 

original description (of Faviaceae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) 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] 

Taxonomy

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] 

Other

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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60631 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [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] 

 
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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]
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Japanese キクメイシ科  [details]
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mussidae) (from synonym Mussidae Ortmann, 1890)
To Genbank (from synonym Mussidae Ortmann, 1890)
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