Favites melicerum Favites melicerum

Favites melicerum is commonly referred to as Favites melicerum. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Favites melicerum
German:: Hirnkoralle
English:: Favites Melicerum

Category:: Stony Corals LPS

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hexacorallia (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus) > melicerum (Species)
Initial determination:: (Ehrenberg, ), 1834

Occurrence:: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 0 - 40 Meter
Size:: up to 11.81" (30 cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 28,5 °F (24°C - 28,5°C)
Food:: Amphipods, Copepods, Plankton, Zooplankton, Zooxanthellae / Light
Tank:: 33 gal (~ 150L)
Difficulty:: Average
Offspring:: Possible to breed
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Appendix II ((commercial trade possible after a safety assessment by the exporting country))

Red List:

Near threatened (NT)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2011-03-21 14:26:01
Last edit:: 2025-09-12 21:13:09

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Favites melicerum are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Favites melicerum, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Favites melicerum, try breeding yourself. This will help to improve the availability of offspring in the trade and to conserve natural stocks.

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Favites melicerum, Veron, 2000

Description: Colonies are submassive to encrusting. Corallites are thick walled and rounded, becoming subplocoid. Septa are few in number, uniform in height and are usually in two (alternating) orders. Paliform lobes and columellae are well developed.
Color: Browns and greens, usually with contrasting walls and centres.

Taxonomic note and references: This is a new name for Favites melicerum as discussed by Wijsman-Best (1972) and Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977). See ‘New species described in Corals of the World’ (Veron, in preparation) for further information. Source reference: Veron (2000).

Synonyms:
Astraea (Fissicella) melicerum Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astraea melicerum Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astrea melicerum Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Favites bestae Veron, 2000 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Prionastraea melicerum (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination

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