species: Favites rotundata in Lizard Island Field Guide (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Favites rotundata


©Anne Hoggett: Favites rotundata on an exposed reef slope at Lizard Island. Grace Frank notes that this is the typical appearance of the species with large fleshy corallites and common yellowish-grey colour.

©Anne Hoggett: Favites rotundata on an exposed reef slope at Lizard Island.

©Anne Hoggett: Close-up of Favites rotundata at exposed reef slope, Lizard Island.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Hexacorallia
Order Scleractinia
Family Merulinidae
Genus Favites
Species Favites rotundata
Status near threatened

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References

  • Dinesen, Z.D. (1983). Shade-dwelling corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 10: 173-185. LIRS catalog number 157.
  • Dornelas, M. (2006). Coral assemblages and neutral theory. PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1626.
  • Dornelas, M. and S.R. Connolly (2008). Multiple modes in a coral species abundance distribution, Ecology Letters, 11: 1008-1016. LIRS catalog number 1145.