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Favites
Sign in to saveFavites 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.
Species
closed brain coral
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderScleractinia
- FamilyMerulinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,881
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Merulinidae
- Collections
- UCMP, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Egypt, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Merulinidae
- Image
- Favites pentagona 1.JPG
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- Commons category
- Favites
- taxon name
- Favites
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Favites
- start time
- 161200000-
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Species
- Fossil record
- References
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.
==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.
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