Size: upto 40 cm.

 

Key Features: A wide variety, often mottled, with pale calices. Colonies are massive, rounded or flat. Corallites are conical. Septa are slightly irregular and widely spaced. Paliform lobes are poorly developed.

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light

 

Habitat: This species occurs in shallow, tropical reef environments. It may be a dominant species on reef back margins. It is common in nearly all reef localities, but does not usually form heads more than a metre or two in diameter. This species is found on subtidal rock and rocky reefs, in the outer reef channel, on the foreslope, in lagoons, and in inter-reef substrate. It can be found in inter-reef rubble substrate. This species is found to 50 m.

 

Conservation status: Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133569/0

 

Favia favus. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0149

 

Favia favus. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/1848_Favia_favus.htm

 

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project, Second Interim Progress Report, GEER Foundation, June 2012

 

 

Photo Courtesy

Neville Coleman. Australian Institute of Marine  Science. Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0 via Creative Commons