WoRMS name details
Favia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
1581105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581105)
unaccepted > junior homonym
Genus
Madrepora fragum Esper, 1793 accepted as Favia fragum (Esper, 1793) (type by subsequent designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
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]
Status Favia was originally described by Oken (1815, p. 67), who listed "Favia ananas" (=Favia fragum) first as belonging to the...
Status Favia was originally described by Oken (1815, p. 67), who listed "Favia ananas" (=Favia fragum) first as belonging to the genus. However, according to ICZN Opinion 417 (September 1956), the names originally proposed by Oken (1815) are rejected. Therefore authorship is based on subsequent use of the name. Ehrenberg (1834) was the second to use the name Favia, but assigned an assortment of species to the genus, all of which have been subsequently assigned to other genera. Cuif and Perrin (1999) indicate "Milne-Edwards, 1857" as the author of Favia, after Verrill (1901). This usage was followed by Budd et al. (2011), who designated Milne Edwards' specimen as the neotype. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Favia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581105 on 2026-03-23
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Status Favia was originally described by Oken (1815, p. 67), who listed "Favia ananas" (=Favia fragum) first as belonging to the genus. However, according to ICZN Opinion 417 (September 1956), the names originally proposed by Oken (1815) are rejected. Therefore authorship is based on subsequent use of the name. Ehrenberg (1834) was the second to use the name Favia, but assigned an assortment of species to the genus, all of which have been subsequently assigned to other genera. Cuif and Perrin (1999) indicate "Milne-Edwards, 1857" as the author of Favia, after Verrill (1901). This usage was followed by Budd et al. (2011), who designated Milne Edwards' specimen as the neotype. [details]
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