Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative combination: Madrepora abdita
Synonyms: Astrea virens Dana 1846, Favia crassior Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850, Favites virens Dana 1846, Prionastraea crassior Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850, Prionastraea gibbosa Klunzinger 1879, Prionastraea quoyi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850, Prionastraea sulfurea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Belongs to Favites according to Vaughan 1918
See also Felix 1915, Felix 1920, Inskipp et al. 2005 and Sheppard 1987
Sister taxa: Favites acuticollis, Favites ambigua, Favites autignacensis, Favites borneensis, Favites carryensis, Favites chinensis, Favites complanata, Favites crassiseptata, Favites densisepta, Favites detecta, Favites flexuosa, Favites gabbi, Favites halicora, Favites inaequiseptata, Favites macrocalyx, Favites magnificata, Favites magnistellata, Favites mexicana, Favites micropentagona, Favites mimbastensis, Favites neglecta, Favites neugeboreni, Favites neuvillei, Favites oligocenica, Favites pauciseptata, Favites pentagona, Favites polygonalis, Favites rhomboidea, Favites rotundata, Favites spinosa, Favites stylifera, Favites taruensis, Favites tesserifera, Favites valenciennesii, Favites verbeeki, Favites yamanarii
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (1), Guam (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (15), Jordan (3), Mauritius (1), New Caledonia (5), Pakistan (3), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (6), Taiwan (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (7), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of France (1), Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of France (1)
Total: 63 collections including 68 occurrences
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