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| Skeletal detail. Showing corallites. |
| Corallite detail. Flores, Indonesia Photograph: Neville Coleman |
| Surface of a large colony. Scott Reef, Western Australia Photograph: Charlie Veron |
| Common appearance of Red Sea colonies. Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Photograph: Charlie Veron |
| Large colonies are usually hemispherical or flattened. Honshu, Japan Photograph: Charlie Veron |
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| Global distribution. |
Characters: Colonies are massive, rounded or flat. Corallites are conical. Septa are slightly irregular and widely spaced. Paliform lobes are poorly developed. Colour: A wide variety, often mottled, with pale calices. Similar species: Favia speciosa, which has smaller, usually more compact corallites. Favia lizardensis and F. danae have corallites of similar size, but the former has more compact corallites with uniform septo-costae and colouration, and the latter has strongly beaded septo-costae. See also F. rosaria and F. maritima. Habitat: May be a dominant species on reef back margins. Abundance: Common.
Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic references: Scheer and Pillai (1974), Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977). Identification guides: Veron (1986), Sheppard and Sheppard (1991), Nishihira and Veron (1995).
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