Acropora coral (no English common name)
Acropora intermedia
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 207035, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Acropora coral (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Acropora intermedia
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Hard corals
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 18 m
- IUCN status
- EN · EndangeredEndangered (EN), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II
Description
A staghorn coral with long, straight, cylindrical branches that form open thickets, often on reef slopes and in lagoons. Colonies are usually pale brown, cream or blue-tinged, with paler tips. It is hard to separate from other staghorn Acropora without close examination.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=7, QM); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=3); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS); 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-intermedia.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207035
- inaturalist.org /observations/111698659
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.