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Purple bullseye
Acanthastrea echinata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207384, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Purple bullseye
- Scientific
- Acanthastrea echinata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Description
A massive or encrusting coral with large, fleshy, often brightly mottled polyps. The walls between the cups carry coarse, spiny teeth. Colonies are usually low and rounded. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Acanthastrea-echinata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207384
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acanthastrea_echinata.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.