Favites

Favites
Temporal range:
Favites pentagona
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Hexacorallia
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Merulinidae
Genus: Favites
Link, 1807
Species
See text
Synonyms
List
  • Aphrastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Favastrea de Blainville, 1834
  • Phymastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 [lapsus]
  • Phymastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Favites is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region and their ranges extend from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean as far as Japan, the Line Islands and the Tuamotu Islands.