Genus Favites Link, 1807

Museums

Regional Maps

• Favites Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [162].

  Type species:

   Favites astrinus Link, 1907 (= Madrepora abdita Ellis & Solander, 1786) by original designation.
• Astrophyllia Ehrenberg, G.G. 1834. Beitrage zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im Allgemeinen und besanders des Rothen Meeres nebst, einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1832(1): 225–380 [322].
• Aphrastrea Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Note sur la classification de la deuxieme tribu de la famille des Astreides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 27(20): 490-497 [495].

  Type species:

   Astrea deformis Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.
• Phymastrea Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Note sur la classification de la deuxieme tribu de la famille des Astreides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 27(20): 490-497 [494].

  Type species:

   Phymastrea valenciennesii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1849. Recherches sur les Polypiers. Quatrième Mémoire: Monographie des Astréides (suite). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 12: 95-197 [third part of the monography, see same journal vols. 10 and 11] [124].
• Prionastrea Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Note sur la classification de la deuxieme tribu de la famille des Astreides. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 27(20): 490-497 [495].

  Type species:

   Astrea abdita Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D. & Budd, A.F. 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355 [317]

Introduction

All species names have been corrected to match the gender being Favites masculine (see ICZN 2011)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

ICZN 2011. Coral taxon names published in ‘Corals of the world’ by J.E.N. Veron (2000): potential availability confirmed under Article 86.1.2. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 68(3): 162–166

History of changes