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Acropora coral (no English common name)
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Acropora coral (no English common name)

Acropora grandis

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207031, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Acropora coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Acropora grandis
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

A large staghorn Acropora that forms tall, open thickets. 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, QM); 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.