''Favites halicora'' is a species of

coral Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and sec ...

belonging to the family

Merulinidae Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals. Characteristics All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The vall ...

. The species was first described in 1834 by

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scie ...

as ''Astraea halicora''. The species is found in Indian and Pacific Ocean.

References

Merulinidae Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean Cnidarians of the Indian Ocean Corals described in 1834 Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg {{Scleractinia-stub