African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Favites valenciennesii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

AfReMaS taxon details

Favites valenciennesii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

AphiaID

763525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:763525)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Favites Link, 1807

Original name

Phymastrea valenciennesii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Synonymised names

Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Phymastrea valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling)

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 10: 209-320, pls. 5-9.
page(s): Plate 9: Figure 3 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Favites valenciennesii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848). Accessed through: 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 at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763525 on 2026-09-17

Regional species database citation

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. Favites valenciennesii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763525 on 2026-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-05-29 09:17:28Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2019-08-30 08:06:35Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-12-31 22:47:05Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2026-05-26 11:26:42Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of ) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 10: 209-320, pls. 5-9.
page(s): Plate 9: Figure 3 [details]

additional source Kishi, D.; Johnson, K. G.; Fukami, H. (2025). Unveiling the hidden complexity: morphological polymorphisms and cryptic diversity in a zooxanthellate massive coral species of the genus Favites (Scleractinia, Merulinidae). Zoologica Scripta. 55: 349-367., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70033 [details] Available for editors

new combination reference 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] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Phymastrea valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) (from synonym Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To GenBank (41 nucleotides; 23 proteins) (from synonym Phymastrea valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
To GenBank (41 nucleotides; 23 proteins) (from synonym Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848))
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (23 records)