Family Faviidae Gregory 1900 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae

Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956

See also Squires 1999 and Turnsek 1997

Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Meandrinidae, Merulinidae, Montlivaltiidae, Pectiniidae, Rhizangiidae, Tropiphyllidae

Subtaxa: Agathiphylliinae Dactylosmilia Defrancia Dictyoastraea Favia Hadrophyllia Ksiazkiewiczia Montastreinae Sakalavastraea Solenastrea Thysanus

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (42 collections), the Bahamas (2), Barbados (11), Brazil (4), Cape Verde (5), Cayman Islands (29), China (1), Cook Islands (7), Costa Rica (5), the Dominican Republic (2), Egypt (31), French Polynesia (5), Guam (1), Haiti (3), India (6), Indonesia (1), Iran (5), Israel (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (45), Kenya (27), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Maldives (3), Mexico (1), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (7), New Caledonia (8), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (3), Panama (12), Papua New Guinea (3), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (6), the Seychelles (8), Somalia (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (15: Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (7), Venezuela (3), Virgin Islands (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (3), United States (2: Florida)

• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Costa Rica (15), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (14), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (2), Indonesia (8), Jamaica (2), the Netherlands Antilles (12), United States (9: California, Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5), United States (1: Puerto Rico)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), Cyprus (2), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (34), Egypt (5), France (11), Greece (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (10), Iran (9), Israel (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Papua New Guinea (2), Poland (5), Portugal (3), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (3), Spain (5), Sri Lanka (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (9), Ukraine (1), United States Minor Outlying Islands (2), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Somalia (1)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Greece (5), India (1), Italy (23), Jamaica (2), Libya (2), Panama (1), Somalia (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)

• Eocene of Austria (1), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Egypt (2), India (1), Somalia (1)

• Cretaceous of China (3), Georgia (1), Greece (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)

• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), Greece (1), Iran (3), Madagascar (1), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 663 collections including 831 occurrences

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