Favia gravida Verrill, 1868

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Verrill, A. E. (1868). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 4. Notice of the corals and Echinoderms collected by Prof. C.F. Hartt, at the Abrolhos Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, 1867. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1 (2): 351–376. https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=35243

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Cnidaria

class

Anthozoa

order

Scleractinia

family

Faviidae

genus

Favia

species

Favia gravida

Name

Synonyms

Coeloria ascensionis (Ridley, 1881)

Favia conferta Verrill, 1868

Maeandra conferta (Verrill, 1868)

Maeandrina ascensionis (Ridley, 1881)

Platygyra ascensionis Ridley, 1881

Homonyms

Favia gravida Verrill, 1868

Common names

Knob coral in language.

knob coral in English

knob coral in English

knob coral in English

Bibliographic References

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3. Amaral, F. D., Hudson, M. M., Steiner, A. Q., & Ramos, C. A. C. 2007. Corals and calcified hydroids of the Manuel Luiz Marine State Park (State of Maranhao, northeast Brazil). Biota Neotropica 7: 73-81.
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