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Blue staghorn
Acropora horrida
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207006, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Blue staghorn
- Scientific
- Acropora horrida
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 3 to 20 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A branching Acropora with an open, irregular shape and long polyps that give it a fuzzy look, often in turbid water. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=12, QM); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013)); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Acropora-horrida.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207006
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Acropora_horrida,_Poruma.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.