Tubular table coral
Acropora granulosa
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207093, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Tubular table coral
- Scientific
- Acropora granulosa
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- VU · VulnerableVulnerable (VU), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
An Acropora that forms flat to slightly tilted plates with short, upright branchlets on the upper surface, usually on reef slopes and in deeper water. Colonies are usually cream, brown or blue-grey. It is difficult to tell from other plate-forming Acropora without close examination.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=15, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist. Branching and table corals of this kind were among the worst hit by the 1998 and 2016 mass bleaching events in the Maldives.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Acropora-granulosa.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207093
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acropora_granulosa,_Mer.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.