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WoRMS taxon detailsFavites halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
207447 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207447)
accepted
Species
Astraea (Fissicella) halicora Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted (changed combination)
Astraea halicora Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astrea halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Favia halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Favites halicora var. acuta Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Favites halicora var. alternata Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Favites halicora var. obtusata Chevalier, 1971 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastraea halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Goniastraea halicora var. acuta Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastraea halicora var. obtusa Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Goniastrea halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Prionastraea halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Prionastrea halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Prionastrea rousseaui Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
recent + fossil
(of Astraea halicora Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
Note Red Sea (Veron, 1986).
Unreviewed
Type locality Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are massive, either rounded or hillocky. Corallites have very thick walls and tend to become subplocoid. Calices...
Description Colonies are massive, either rounded or hillocky. Corallites have very thick walls and tend to become subplocoid. Calices average 10 mm in diameter. Budding is both intra- and extratentacular. Paliform lobes may be developed. Colour: Abundance (Veron, 1986). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Favites halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207447 on 2025-04-02
Date action by 2000-09-28 07:24:50Z changed Garcia, Maria
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Astraea halicora Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details] original description (of Favites halicora var. obtusata Chevalier, 1971) Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details] original description (of Favites halicora var. acuta Chevalier, 1971) Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details] original description (of Favites halicora var. alternata Chevalier, 1971) Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details] original description (of Prionastrea rousseaui Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details] original description (of Goniastraea halicora var. acuta Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]  original description (of Goniastraea halicora var. obtusa Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details] basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] Othercontext source (HKRMS)
AFCD. (2004). Ecological Status and Revised Species Records of Hong Kong's Scleractinian Corals. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department,The Hong Kong SAR Government. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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. [details] additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23. page(s): 9, 11, 12, 25 [details] additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46. page(s): 29 [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] additional source Wells JW. (1955). Recent and subfossil corals of Moreton Bay, Queensland. <em>Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Geology.</em> 4 (10): 1-18, pls. 1-3. page(s): 5, 13 [details] additional source Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75. page(s): 9, 49, 74 [details] additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1940). Madreporaria from the Togian Reefs (Gulf of Tomini, North-Celebes. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 265-310. page(s): 271, 280-281, 309, Pl. XXIV [details] additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details] additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257. page(s): 91 [details] additional source Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details] additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24. page(s): 75, 96 [details] additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33. page(s): 31 [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 Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. <em>Bureau of Science Manila Monograph.</em> 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100. page(s): 12, 40, 136-137 [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, 102 [details] additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216. page(s): 206 [details] additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. <em>Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban.</em> 49: 1-45. page(s): 30 [details] additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [details] additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490. page(s): 144-145 [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 Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486. page(s): 393, 467 [details] additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90. page(s): 87 [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 Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113 page(s): 63, 92, 112 [details] additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2 page(s): 2, 10, 15, 67, 69, 71 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype HLD X2: 136-1, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8628, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 199-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 237-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 257-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 269-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 291-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 295-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 299-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 301-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 338-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 342-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 466-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 470-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 496-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 832-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Favia halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)) IMC [details]
Unknown type (of Favia halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)) IMC apr-74, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Favia halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)) IMC mrt-28, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonies are massive, either rounded or hillocky. Corallites have very thick walls and tend to become subplocoid. Calices average 10 mm in diameter. Budding is both intra- and extratentacular. Paliform lobes may be developed. Colour: Abundance (Veron, 1986). [details]Type locality Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Favia halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Favites halicora) To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Astraea halicora Ehrenberg, 1834) To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (52 records) To ITIS |
