Favites complanata Stony coral

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

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lexID:: 1756
AphiaID:: 207455

Scientific:: Favites complanata
German:: Hirnkoralle
English:: Stony Coral

Category:: Stony Corals LPS

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

Occurrence:: Hong Kong, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Austral Islands, Australia, Bakers Island, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Comores, Cook Islands, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Egypt, Fiji, French Polynesia, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Pulisan, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Atlantic, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, the Cargados Carajos Shoals, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Timor, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen
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:: 76.82 °F - 28.9, °F (24.9°C - 28.9,°C)
Food:: Plankton, 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:: 2005-11-26 15:57:27
Last edit:: 2025-09-12 19:17:39

Captive breeding / propagation

The offspring of Favites complanata are possible. Unfortunately, the number of offspring is not large enough to cover the demand of the trade. If you are interested in Favites complanata, please ask your dealer for offspring. If you already own Favites complanata, 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 complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834)

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Characters: Colonies are massive with slightly angular corallites. Corallites have thick, rounded walls. Paliform lobes are weakly developed. Columellae are large. Septal spines may be prominent. Costae commonly form a three pointed star where three corallites adjoin.

Synonymised names
Astraea tesserifera Ehrenberg, 1834 (synonym)
Favia complanata Ehrenberg, 1834 (original combination, basionym)
Prionastraea tesserifera (Ehrenberg, 1834) (synonym)

External links

Corals of the World (en). Abgerufen am 12.09.2025.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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zakk
@zakk

am 07.11.08#1

Eine sehr ausdauernde Koralle.
Das sie ziemlich robust ist kann ich sagen, weil sie eine meiner ersten Korallen war (hat damals so einige "mini" Katastrophen unbeschadet überlebt).

Die "Plutoniumgrünen" Polypen sind der absolute Hammer.

Eine gute Einsteigerkoralle, die obendrein auch noch sehr schön ist.

Zu halten wie alle Favites, also nicht zu hell und ein wenig Strömung.

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