Favites

Favites is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region and their ranges extend from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean as far as Japan, the Line Islands and the Tuamotu Islands.[2]

Favites
Temporal range: Jurassic - Recent
Favites pentagona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Merulinidae
Genus: Favites
Link, 1807 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
List
  • Aphrastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Favastrea de Blainville, 1834
  • Phymastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 [lapsus]
  • Phymastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Characteristics

Colonies can be encrusting but are usually massive and dome-shaped. The corallites are mostly cerioid (sharing a common wall), but some are plocoid (with an individual wall) and the palliform lobes are indistinct, which distinguishes these corals from the otherwise similar Goniastrea.[1][2]

Species

The following species are currently recognized by the World Register of Marine Species :[1]

  • Favites abdita (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  • Favites acuticollis (Ortmann, 1889)
  • Favites chinensis (Verrill, 1866)
  • Favites colemani (Veron, 2000)
  • Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  • Favites favosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  • Favites flexuosa (Dana, 1846)
  • Favites halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  • Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971)
  • Favites melicerum (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  • Favites micropentagonus Veron, 2000
  • Favites monticularis Mondal, Raghunathan & Venkataraman, 2013
  • Favites paraflexuosus Veron, 2000
  • Favites pentagona (Esper, 1795)
  • Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977
  • Favites solidocolumellae Latypov, 2006
  • Favites spinosa (Klunzinger, 1879)
  • Favites stylifera Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937
  • Favites valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
  • Favites vasta (Klunzinger, 1879)
Fossil internal model of Favites, from Miocene of Italy

Fossil record

Fossils of Favites are found in marine strata from the Jurassic to the Quaternary (age range: from 161.2 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Indonesia, Philippines, Africa, North America, South America, Pakistan, Japan and India.[3]

References
  1. Hoeksema, Bert (2015). "Favites Link, 1807". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  2. Sprung, Julian (1999). Corals: A quick reference guide. Ricordea Publishing. pp. 110โ€“111. ISBN 1-883693-09-8.
  3. The Paleobiology Database
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