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Favia De Blainville, 1820

Neotype of Madrepora fragum Esper
Neotype of Madrepora fragum Esper

718691  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:718691)

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Favia Oken, 1815 · unaccepted > unavailable name

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  1. Species Favia fragum (Esper, 1793)
  2. Species Favia gravida Verrill, 1868
  3. Species Favia albidus Veron, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea albida (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  4. Species Favia conferta Verrill, 1868 accepted as Favia gravida Verrill, 1868 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  5. Species Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, basionym)
  6. Species Favia favus (Forskål, 1775) accepted as Dipsastraea favus (Forskål, 1775) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  7. Species Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954 accepted as Dipsastraea helianthoides (Wells, 1954) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  8. Species Favia lacuna Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea lacuna (Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  9. Species Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) accepted as Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  10. Species Favia leptophylla Verrill, 1868 accepted as Mussismilia leptophylla (Verrill, 1868) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  11. Species Favia lizardensis Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 accepted as Dipsastraea lizardensis (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  12. Species Favia maritima (Nemenzo, 1971) accepted as Dipsastraea maritima (Nemenzo, 1971) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  13. Species Favia marshae Veron, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea marshae (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  14. Species Favia matthaii Vaughan, 1918 accepted as Dipsastraea matthaii (Vaughan, 1918) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  15. Species Favia maxima Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 accepted as Astraeosmilia maxima (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  16. Species Favia pallida (Dana, 1846) accepted as Dipsastraea pallida (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  17. Species Favia rosaria Veron, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea rosaria (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  18. Species Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) accepted as Dipsastraea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  19. Species Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977) accepted as Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  20. Species Favia speciosa (Dana, 1846) accepted as Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  21. Species Favia stelligera (Dana, 1846) accepted as Goniastrea stelligera (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  22. Species Favia truncatus Veron, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea truncata (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  23. Species Favia veroni Moll & Best, 1984 accepted as Dipsastraea veroni (Moll & Best, 1984) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  24. Species Favia vietnamensis Veron, 2000 accepted as Dipsastraea vietnamensis (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  25. Species Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983 accepted as Dipsastraea wisseli (Scheer & Pillai, 1983) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
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Blainville, H.M. de. (1820). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes, EUP-FIK. <em>Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 16: 1-567, Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Favia De Blainville, 1820. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718691 on 2025-09-10
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Favia De Blainville, 1820. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718691 on 2025-09-10
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2018-08-16 19:12:21Z
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original description Blainville, H.M. de. (1820). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes, EUP-FIK. <em>Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles.</em> 16: 1-567, Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris. [details] 

original description (of Favia Oken, 1815) Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record 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 Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. <em>Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea).</em> 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 42 [details] 

additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 512 [details] 

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details] 

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details] 

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 45 [details] 

additional source Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2007). Thriving cnidarian community on the volcanic coastline of Sakurajima Taisho Lava Field, southern Japan. Coral Reefs, 26, 95
page(s): 95 [details] 

additional source Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194
page(s): 187 [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.
page(s): 27, 29, 48, 49, 50 [details] 

additional source 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] 

additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38.
page(s): 113-115 [details] 

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 388, 390 [details] 

additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclop�dique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details] 

additional source Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050
page(s): 358, 372 [details] 

additional source Fromentel, E. de. (1861). Introduction a l'etude des polypiers fossiles. <em>Memoires de la Societe d 'Emulation du Departement du Doubs.</em> 1-157. [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 28, 101 [details] 

additional source Durham JW. (1962). Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series.</em> 32 (2): 41-56.
page(s): 45 [details] 
 
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