Maldives Marine Life

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

Acropora coral (no English common name)

Acropora florida

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207058, checked 2026-10-31). WoRMS status: unreplaced junior homonym (still the name in use).

English
Acropora coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Acropora florida
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Acroporidae (staghorn, table and plate corals)
IUCN status
NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)CITES Appendix II

Description

An Acropora with thick main branches covered in many short side branchlets. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.

Sources

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