Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

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Acanthastrea coral (no English common name)
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Photo: quokka2 / iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0 (view on iNaturalist)iNaturalist research-grade observation. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Acanthastrea coral (no English common name)

Acanthastrea pachysepta

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 888170, checked 2026-10-31).

Possibly present in the Maldives

English
Acanthastrea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Acanthastrea pachysepta
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Lobophylliidae (lobed brain and meat corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 30 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2022CITES Appendix II
Record in the Maldives
Possibly present

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: SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist. Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.