African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977

WoRMS taxon details

Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977

AphiaID

207445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207445)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Favites Link, 1807

Original name

Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977

Synonymised names

Dipsastraea rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series. 3: 1-233. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Swain Reefs

type locality contained in Swain Reefs [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207445 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-06-03 09:30:54Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2014-03-15 23:02:09Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-03-16 01:08:52Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-05-27 21:37:37Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-12-31 09:56:23Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series. 3: 1-233. [details]

new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [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): 48 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 141-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 46-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 493-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 569-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 782-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)) WAM 905-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	knob coral [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	アツキクメイシ	[details]

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Dipsastraea rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Favites rotundata)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Favia rotundata (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (3 records)
To ITIS