''Favites halicora'' is a species of

coral Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral ...

belonging to the family

Merulinidae Merulinidae is a Family (biology), family of reef-building Scleractinia, 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, w ...

. The species was first described in 1834 by

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...

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