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Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

196099  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196099)

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Family
Favia de Blainville, 1820 (type by subsequent designation)
Mussidae Ortmann, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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(of ) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details] 
AfReMaS (2025). Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196099 on 2026-02-17
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Faviidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196099 on 2026-02-17
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2005-12-27 19:49:34Z
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2009-08-11 09:20:33Z
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original description (of Mussidae Ortmann, 1890) Ortmann, A. E. (1890). Die Morphologie des Skeletts des Steinkorallen in Beziehung zur Koloniebildung. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig.</em> 50: 278–316. [details] 

original description (of ) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details] 

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60631 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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 Gregory JW. (1900). The Jurassic fauna of Cutch. The corals. <em>Palaeontologica Indica, Ser 9.</em> 2 (2): 1-195, pls. 2-27. [details] 

additional source Baron-Szabo, R. C. (2018). Nomenclatural notes on the genus Favia (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviina: Faviidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 131(1): 197-201., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/18-00006 [details] 

additional source Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details] 

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