Favites pentagona Larger Star Voral

Favites pentagona is commonly referred to as Larger Star Voral. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. A aquarium size of at least 150 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

665 

AphiaID:

207446 

Scientific:

Favites pentagona 

German:

Hirnkoralle, große Sternkoralle 

English:

Larger Star Voral 

Category:

Stenkoraller - LPS 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Favites (Genus) > pentagona (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Esper, ), 1795 

Occurrence:

Kuwait, Sudan, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Eritrea, Cocos Island (Costa Rica), (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Arabian Sea, Australia, Bahrain, China, Christmas Islands, Comores, Djibouti, East Africa, Egypt, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Line Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Quatar, Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Tuvalu, 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 

Habitats:

Reef-associated, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

up to 11.81" (30 cm) 

Temperature:

76.82 °F - 84.02 °F (24.9°C - 28.9°C) 

Food:

Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light 

Tank:

33 gal (~ 150L)  

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Easy to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

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

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Favites abdita
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites chinensis
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites complanata
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites flexuosa
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites halicora
  großpolypige Steinkoralle
• 
  Favites pentagona
  Hirnkoralle, große Sternkoralle
• 
  Favites stylifera
  Hirnkoralle

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Favites acuticollis
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites colemani
  Colemans Favites, Großpolypige Steinkoralle
• 
  Favites magnistellata
  Großpolypige Steinkoralle
• 
  Favites melicerum
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites micropentagonus
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites monticularis
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites paraflexuosus
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites rotundata
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites spinosa
  Hirnkoralle
• 
  Favites valenciennesii
  Großpolypige Steinkoralle
• 
  Favites vasta
  Hirnkoralle

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-09-11 18:22:50 

Last edit:

2026-06-29 12:56:14 

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