title: Favites
text: # Favites
  
  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.
  
  ## Characteristics
  
  Colonies can be encrusting but are usually massive and dome-shaped. The corallites are mostly cerioid (sharing a common wall), but some are plocoid (with an individual wall) and the palliform lobes are indistinct, which distinguishes these corals from the otherwise similar Goniastrea.
  
  ## Species
  
  The following species are currently recognized by the World Register of Marine Species :
  
  * Favites abdita (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  * Favites acuticollis (Ortmann, 1889)
  * Favites chinensis (Verrill, 1866)
  * Favites colemani (Veron, 2000)
  * Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  * Favites favosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  * Favites flexuosa (Dana, 1846)
  * Favites halicora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  * Favites magnistellata (Chevalier, 1971)
  * Favites melicerum (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  * Favites micropentagonus Veron, 2000
  * Favites monticularis Mondal, Raghunathan & Venkataraman, 2013
  * Favites paraflexuosus Veron, 2000
  * Favites pentagona (Esper, 1795)
  * Favites rotundata Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977
  * Favites solidocolumellae Latypov, 2006
  * Favites spinosa (Klunzinger, 1879)
  * Favites stylifera Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937
  * Favites valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
  * Favites vasta (Klunzinger, 1879)
  
  ## Fossil record
  
  Fossils of Favites are found in marine strata from the Jurassic to the Quaternary (age range: from 161.2 to 0.0 million years ago.). Fossils are known from many localities in Europe, Indonesia, Philippines, Africa, North America, South America, Pakistan, Japan and India.
  
  